Monday, June 27

Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Rises

Americans' confidence in newspapers and television news rebounded slightly in the past year, having been stuck at record lows since 2007 (according to a new Gallup poll). The 28% of Americans who express a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers and the 27% who say the same about television news still lag significantly behind the levels of trust seen through much of the 1990s and into 2003. Interestingly, considering the highly polarized nature of cable news, all ideological groups increased their trust in television news to about the same degree.

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