New Gallup Poll Reveals Historic Low: 70% of Americans Don’t Trust the Media. Here’s What’s Driving the Crisis.
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Ridgewood NJ, in a time when reliable information is more critical than ever, a shocking new finding confirms what many Americans already feel: faith in the media has cratered to an all-time low.
The latest Gallup Poll on media trust has delivered a stunning verdict, showing the lowest-ever public regard for traditional news sources. This isn’t just a minor dip; it’s a dramatic sign of a widening chasm between news organizations and the public they aim to serve.
Ridgewood NJ, Disney’s ABC has yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely after the host’s inflammatory remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, igniting a firestorm in Bergen County and beyond. Nexstar Media, a major U.S. TV station owner, led the charge, pulling the show for its “offensive” content, while FCC Chair Brendan Carr slams Kimmel’s “sick” conduct. As Trump celebrates the move, this 2025 showdown exposes the decline of biased legacy media—here’s why it’s a game-changer for NJ viewers!
Ridgewood NJ, President Donald Trump is taking on The New York Times in a jaw-dropping $15 billion defamation lawsuit filed in Florida, targeting four journalists and their alleged smear campaign against him. Announced on September 16, 2025, via Truth Social, Trump calls the Times a “degenerate mouthpiece” for Democrats, slamming their pre-election articles and a book as malicious lies. From Bergen County to nationwide, this legal battle is shaking up media accountability—here’s why it’s a must-know story for 2025!
New York NY, CBS has officially canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, citing massive financial losses rather than political pressure, according to network insiders.
Despite The Late Show maintaining the No. 1 spot in late-night TV ratings, the show was reportedly bleeding $40 million to $50 million annually due to a decline in advertising revenue and shrinking viewership among younger audiences.
Washington DC, in a sweeping late-night move, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the termination of all federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The order also tasks all federal agencies with identifying and ending any additional taxpayer support going to the two public broadcasters.
Washington DC, the Washington Post is undergoing a significant editorial shift, with Jeff Bezos, the newspaper’s owner, announcing a new focus on personal liberties and free markets in its opinion section. This change has led to the resignation of Opinion Editor David Shipley, raising concerns among some far left leaning staff members about the future direction of the paper.
New York NY, In a high-profile resolution, ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos have settled a defamation lawsuit brought by President-elect Donald Trump. The agreement, filed in court Saturday, includes a public apology and a $15 million contribution toward the funding of Trump’s future presidential library.
Ridgewood NJ, as conflicts rage across the globe and the U.S. presidential election looms just three weeks away, trust in mass media is plummeting to new lows. A recent Gallup survey reveals that only 31% of U.S. adults say they have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in the media to report news fully, fairly, and accurately—a record low since the survey began in 1972.
Ridgewood NJ, after major news organizations distorted former President Donald Trump’s comments about a “bloodbath” for the auto industry, a majority of voters now agree with Trump that the news media are “the enemy of the people.”
Ridgewood NJ, difficult weekend for the mainstream or fake media , first Special Counsel Robert Mueller rebukes a buzz feed article the whole emdia ran with and was using to predict the iminent impeachment of the President . Buss fedd of coarse was where the whole Russian hoax started with the report of the debunked Steel dossie as fact.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office has denied the veracity of BuzzFeed News’ incredible claims.”BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” a spokesperson for Mueller’s office said late Friday evening.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the mainstream press is full of fake news, a sentiment that is held by a majority of voters across the ideological spectrum.
According to data from the latest Harvard-Harris poll, which was provided exclusively to The Hill, 65 percent of voters believe there is a lot of fake news in the mainstream media.
That number includes 80 percent of Republicans, 60 percent of independents and 53 percent of Democrats. Eighty-four percent of voters said it is hard to know what news to believe online.
“Much of the media is now just another part of the partisan divide in the country with Republicans not trusting the ‘mainstream’ media and Democrats seeing them as reflecting their beliefs,” said Harvard-Harris co-director Mark Penn. “Every major institution from the presidency to the courts is now seen as operating in a partisan fashion in one direction or the other.”
How negative was press coverage of President Trump’s first 100 days in office? Far more than that of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, or Bill Clinton, according to a new report from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
The Harvard scholars analyzed the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and the main newscasts (not talk shows) of CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC during Trump’s initial time in office. They found, to no one’s surprise, that Trump absolutely dominated news coverage in the first 100 days. And then they found that news coverage was solidly negative — 80 percent negative among those outlets studied, versus 20 percent positive.
The numbers for previous presidents: Barack Obama, 41 percent negative, 59 percent positive; George W. Bush, 57 percent negative, 43 percent positive; and Bill Clinton, 60 percent negative, 40 percent positive.
By Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella | April 19, 2017 | 9:16 AM EDT
As President Trump approaches the end of his first 100 days in office, he has received by far the most hostile press treatment of any incoming American president, with the broadcast networks punishing him with coverage that has been 89% negative. The networks largely ignored important national priorities such as jobs and the fight against ISIS, in favor of a news agenda that has been dominated by anti-Trump controversies and which closely matches what would be expected from an opposition party.
For example, President Trump’s push to invigorate the economy and bring back American jobs received a mere 18 minutes of coverage (less than one percent of all airtime devoted to the administration), while his moves to renegotiate various international trade deals resulted in less than 10 minutes of TV news airtime.
Eight years ago, in contrast, the broadcast networks rewarded new President Barack Obama with mainly positive spin, and spent hundreds of stories discussing the economic agenda of the incoming liberal administration.
Here Are Just a Few Of the Fake News Stories About Donald Trump:
He doesn’t read. A favorite NY Times/MSNBC lie. Totally false. Anyone that knows him, including myself, laughs when they hear that one. A constant reader, look at any picture of his desk, covered with reports, studies and books.
CNN reported that Nancy Sinatra was “not happy” Trump’s first inaugural dance to her dad’s “My Way.” Even the very liberal Democrat Nancy was stunned by this fake news and posted this reaction, “Why do you lie, CNN?”
The New York Times and others reported that on Inauguration Day, Trump’s team scrubbed climate change and references to LGBT from the White House website. Actually, there was a broadcasted plan to shift the Obama website to a different site and that the Trump team would use a skeleton site for the first few days.
The Washington Post hit Trump for giving a speech in front of the “sacrosanct” CIA Memorial Wall. It didn’t mention that Obama had done the same thing.
CBS, reporting on the same event, said that the applause for Trump came from the first three rows of guests, stacked with Trump campaign and White House aides. In an embarrassing pushback, Spicer at a subsequent press briefing said there were no aides in the first four rows, that they were standing in the back.
A Time reporter tweeted that Trump removed the Martin Luther King Jr. bust from Oval office. The reporter soon corrected the tweet.
Several outlets reported that Team Trump issued a “gag order” on the EPA and other agencies. In fact, the memo asking them to refrain from tweeting and issuing news releases is standard operating procedure between administrations.
The AP reported that Donald Trump’s voter fraud expert was registered to vote in three states. He was registered in only one.
Many media outlets described the president’s immigration orders as a “Muslim ban.”It targeted anybody from seven nations, including Christians, not just Muslims.
The New York Times reported that Trump’s staff bumbles around in the dark in the Cabinet room because they can’t find the light switch.
The failing @nytimes does major FAKE NEWS China story saying “Mr.Xi has not spoken to Mr. Trump since Nov.14.” We spoke at length yesterday!
Longtime Hillary Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal wrote up a story in the London Review of Books about a racist political ad by Trump’s father. It was widely spread in mainstream media social accounts. It was a fake.
The Trump Company was sued by the city for racist housing in the 70’s – every company was.
Reports said that a Muslim-American Olympic female athlete was detained at an airport under Trump’s immigration orders. She was briefly detained in December under former President Obama’s policies.
Several reports said that Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussed classified info at dinner table at Mar-a-Largo. They were discussing press conference plans for next day.
Most mainstream media outlets have sneered that there was little or no voter fraud in the election. But a university analysis and separate poll indicated that 2 million “non-citizen” immigrants may have voted.
NBC and others said that 10 members of an Asian American Council quit in protest over Trump policies. Spicer said that they were all Obama appointees with terms set to expire.
The Associated Press reported that the president planned to mobilize the National Guard to remove illegal immigrants. White House called it “100 percent wrong.”
The New York Daily News reported that Trump domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller called Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers at home to explain how to defend the immigration executive order in court. Both however said they did not speak.
Ridgewood NJ, In a fascinating exchange French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen tells a reporter that no one trusts the media and highlights how incredibly disconnected dishonest the mainstream media really is.
The reporter tells Le Pen her advice that people “turn away from the traditional media, (and) go and find news on the Internet” is “dangerous”, Le Pen responds, “why?”.
“Madame, French people have no confidence in the media whatsoever, are you aware of that, or not?” asks Le Pen.
Le Pen then goes on detailing what she considers the media’s deficiencies .
The same people who got it spectacularly wrong on Brexit and Trump are the same people who think the mainstream media is still trustworthy.
As promised two days ago on the Sean Hannity radio show, James O’Keefe and his team at Project Veritas just released covertly captured, previously unheard audio footage from within the CNN newsroom. But unlike his usual undercover sting operations, this footage was allegedly sourced from a CNN insider who apparently grew frustrated with the perpetually biased reporting of the “fake news” media outlet.
Per O’Keefe’s website, today’s release includes 119 hours of secretly recorded raw footage from an inside source at CNN with another 100 hours of footage still to be released. Given the volume of footage to be released, O’Keefe is asking for help to transcribe and investigate the recordings and encourages users to provide tips on interesting discoveries here.
The audio was secretly recorded in 2009 by an anonymous source inside CNN’s Atlanta headquarters who we are identifying as Miss X. The tapes contain soundbites from current and previous CNN employees Joe Sterling, Arthur Brice, and Nicky Robertson, as well as numerous others.
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