[Infowarrior] - Pew Report: Media Accuracy hits 20yr low

[Richard Forno]

September 13, 2009

Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low Public Evaluations of the  
News Media: 1985-2009
The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its  
lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and  
Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.

Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the  
facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate.  
In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s  
performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34%  
said they were inaccurate. That percentage had fallen sharply by the  
late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade.

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http://people-press.org/report/543/