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by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Reason.com
American confidence in media is at nearly the lowest level since the early 1970s. A new Gallup poll finds just 36 percent of survey respondents say they trust the press to report the news fully, fairly, and accurately (down from 40 percent who said the same last year).
This marks the second-lowest level of trust in media since Gallup started measuring trust in U.S. institutions in 1972. The record low came in 2016, when just 32 percent of people said they had either “a great deal” of trust in media or “a fair amount” of trust.
In 2021, 7 percent of those polled said they have a great deal of trust, and 29 percent a fair amount. Meanwhile, 29 percent have “not very much” trust in media and 34 percent “none at all.”