Americans’ Trust In The Propaganda Press Has Literally Never Been Lower: Poll

The public doesn’t trust Big Media. Who could have foreseen this riveting data from the folks at Gallup? Anyone with a brain.

Americans’ trust in the “mass media” is at its lowest point in more than 50 years according to Gallup data released this week. And based on polling reactions by age, the future of news is bleak, because people under 50 trust news media even less than those over 65.

About 36 percent of Americans say they have “no trust at all” in the media to report news “fully, accurately and fairly,” which is up from 6 percent in 1972, Gallup’s data shows. Thirty-three percent of respondents say they do not trust it “very much.” As Gallup notes, trust has been trending down since 2003.

Fewer Republicans trust the news compared to Democrats, with 59 percent of Republicans saying they have zero trust in the mass media. This number surpassed 50 percent for Republicans for the first time in 2020 and has never recovered.

According to the poll, 42 percent of independents say they have no trust “at all” in the media. But just 6 percent of Democrats hold that view; most Democrats are apparently still buying whatever the media is selling. (Read more from “Americans’ Trust In The Propaganda Press Has Literally Never Been Lower: Poll” HERE)