It’s official: You hate the media because we’re stupid
By Jon Friedman, MarketWatch
Opinion: News companies exploit tragedies and treat celebrities like royalty
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The Gallup polling organization has reported that Americans’ confidence in the media remains frightfully low. If you’re in the news business, this development should shake you to your core.
It boils down to this: What you’re selling, the public ain’t buying.
In fact, its belief in television news, newspapers and news found on the Internet is currently at or tied with record lows in the polling organization’s long-running confidence-in-institutions surveys. This is not a new occurrence.
Those findings build on a decades-long nose-dive. And what about the media industry’s savior, the Web, you ask? The trust in Internet news remains low since the previous survey, conducted in 1999. But that was so long ago that the tech-stock bubble hadn’t even burst yet.
The survey scrutinized Americans’ trust in 17 institutions; and newspapers, television news and Internet news ranked in the bottom third. The only institution all three outpolled was Congress. (That’s something to cheer about, eh?)
The Poynter media organization notes that, according to Gallup, “confidence in newspapers has declined by more than half since its 1979 peak of 51%, while TV news has seen confidence ebb from its high of 46% in 1993, the first year that Gallup asked this question.”
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the media in this country is pathetic