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Last month PBS released the results of a poll they sponsored, which was conducted by Roper. PBS puts the best spin they can on it, but the results are shocking:
Quoting PBS: "PBS remains the network with the most trusted news and public affairs programming, with 41% trusting its programs a great deal. CNN and Fox News trailed as second and third with 28% and 25%, respectively."
In other words: Less than one-third of Americans say that the news and public affairs programming of any MSM network is something they trust a great deal. The best-performing of them, CNN and Fox News, could show only scores of 28% and 25% respectively. (I believe PBS isn't generally considered part of mainstream media; but, if it is included, then we can say that the best-performing MSM organization, PBS, could only show a score of 41% -- less than half of the public).
Quoting PBS: "Forty-three percent of Americans rated the news coverage, investigations and discussions of major issues on PBS programs as mostly fair. NBC came in second at 37%."
In other words: Far less than half of Americans rate MSM news coverage, investigations and discussions of major issues as mostly fair. The highest-rated, NBC, scored only 37%.
Americans long ago began to catch on that MSM just backs up whatever the Democratic party line is. This is destroying the public trust in MSM and driving people elsewhere to find the truth. From the LA Times:
There's no reason for MSM to do this to itself. When MSM starts reporting the good news along with the bad (e.g. starts reporting the good news about the economy with the prominence its significance deserves), and starts seriously critiquing all the phony scandals concocted by the left (e.g. this phony attorney-firing scandal), instead of just providing a platform for them, public trust in MSM will rebound, and MSM readership and revenue will increase.
