Are Americans Waking up?

[Snaquebite]

US public sees news media as biased, inaccurate, uncaring: poll

Aug 9 06:28 PM US/Eastern


More than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on, a poll published Thursday showed.
And poll respondents who use the Internet as their main source of news -- roughly one quarter of all Americans -- were even harsher with their criticism, the poll conducted by the Pew Research Center said.

More than two-thirds of the Internet users said they felt that news organizations don't care about the people they report on; 59 percent said their reporting was inaccurate; and 64 percent they were politically biased.

More than half -- 53 percent -- of Internet users also faulted the news organizations for "failing to stand up for America".

Among those who get their news from newspapers and television, criticism of the news organizations was up to 20 percentage points lower than among Internet news audiences, who tend to be younger and better educated than the public as a whole, according to Pew.

The poll indicates an across the board fall in the public's opinion on the news media since 1985, when a similar survey was conducted by Times Mirror, Pew Research said.

"Two decades ago, public attitudes about how news organizations do their job were less negative. Most people believed that news organizations stood up for America... a majority believed that news organizations got the facts straight," Pew said in a report.

The Washington-based Pew Research Center describes itself as a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

I have read this in other snippets across the internet. Could it be that many Americans are finally understanding that the MSM really dosen't give a hoot what they report and that most media outlets are biased in one way or another?

[Pete]

Kinda' like that little flap about 1998 being the hotest year on record?

MSM - where are ya'? NASA why did you do it?

"Sound of Crickets on a dark night"

[Team Sergeant]

I read somewhere the "more intelligent" are gathering their news solely from the internet and are reading more than one source. Smart move.

It makes sense, the NYTimes is reducing its operations in a big way. I fore see the "newspaper" as a thing of the past.

As far as Americans waking up, nope. We become fatter and more complacent day after day. I really don't care about average Joe American anymore, I care about that .05% that stand between average Joe and a gruesome beheading. For when that .05% stop caring the sky will indeed fall.

TS

[incommin]

TS, there will always be that 10% who will care, who will answer the call and ride to the sound of the guns.... and who will laugh at and scorn the population of "sheep" they protect.

Jim