Press Poll

People just don't trust the media:

In a national survey, conducted December 2-18, 2024, Gallup asked respondents to “rate the honesty and ethical standards” of 23 professions. “TV reporter” was one of just three professions distrusted by a majority of Americans. Only 13%, or about one in eight, rate the trustworthiness of TV reporters as either “high” or “very high,” while more than four times as many (55%) think it’s “low” or “very low” (55%). Similarly, nearly half (45%) of U.S. adults rate the honesty and ethics of newspaper reporters as either low or very low, while only about one in six (17%) give them a positive score. “TV reporters, whose nine-point slide since the 2000s reflects the decline in Americans’ broader confidence in the news media,” Gallup reports. “Americans’ trust in newspaper reporters…has been consistently low over the years, with little change.” Indeed, trust in mass media hit a record low for the third straight year in 2024, as Gallup’s annual survey on trust found that less than a third of Americans (31%) say they believe what they’re being told by the media, compared to 69% who say they don’t, including 36% who have no trust at all.

It's a matter of distrust...