by WARNER TODD HUSTON 17 Jun 2013
A new poll on newspapers and television news shows that Americans’ confidence in the news industry continues to erode in this era of mass communications, reaching a low not seen since 2007.
The Gallup polling firm finds that trust in newspapers has fallen to 23 percent. This is down from 25 percent in 2012 and 28 percent in 2011.
The previous low was recorded in 2007 when trust in newspapers reached 22 percent.
Trust in newspapers has steadily declined since its 1979 high of 51 percent, Gallup reports.
Television news fares no better in the estimation of those polled by Gallup. Trust in TV news tied that of newspapers, with 23 percent saying they trust TV news sources. This is down from a 1993 high of 46 percent–when Gallup first began asking about it.
The polling giant cautions, however, that the TV question does not distinguish between cable and network news, with both sources lumped in together in the question.
Naturally, liberals trust newspapers more than conservatives.
Read More: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/06/17/Public-Trust-in-Newspapers-Falls-to-New-Lows
Hope the local pantiwaste editors read this so that they may grab an insight as to how inconsequential their own future employment has become largely due to facilitating their own demise. No more bread for you.