{"id":4042,"date":"2025-10-03T18:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:38:11","slug":"trust-in-us-media-at-historic-low-gallup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/03\/trust-in-us-media-at-historic-low-gallup\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust in US media at historic low \u2013 Gallup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only 28% of Americans believe that TV, radio, and newspapers report news accurately, an opinion poll has indicated<\/strong><\/p>\n

Americans’ confidence in the mass media has sunk to a record low, with fewer than three in ten now trusting news outlets to report fairly, according to a new Gallup poll.<\/p>\n

A poll conducted in September of 1,000 adults showed that only 28% expressed a “great deal”<\/em> or “fair amount”<\/em> of trust in newspapers, television and radio, down from 31% last year, 40% five years ago, and almost 70% in the 1970s. Meanwhile, 36% reported “not very much”<\/em> confidence and 34% said they had “none at all.”<\/em><\/p>\n

For the first time, confidence among Republicans has collapsed into single digits, with only 8% saying they trust the media. However, 51% of Democrats believed media reporting.<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump’s rocky relationship with the press has reportedly fueled these splits. A Harvard Kennedy School study found that Trump’s first 100 days in office drew overwhelmingly negative coverage, while the Media Research Center recently estimated that more than 90% of evening newscast stories about him on ABC, NBC, and CBS were unfavorable.<\/p>\n

On the 100th day of his second term this year, Trump’s administration issued a press release titled “100 Days of Hoaxes,”<\/em> accusing major outlets of spreading “a nonstop deluge of hoaxes and lies”<\/em> and listed 48 reports it deemed false.<\/p>\n

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Beyond partisan politics, structural shifts are also eroding traditional media. A Reuters Institute report in June suggested that podcasters and AI chatbots are playing a growing role in news dissemination, with more than half of Americans under 35 relying on social and video networks as their main sources of information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only 28% of Americans believe that TV, radio, and newspapers report news accurately, an opinion poll has indicated Americans’ confidence in the mass media has sunk to a record low, with fewer than three in ten now trusting news outlets to report fairly, according to a new Gallup poll. A…<\/p>\n

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