Seems the public shares the President's views

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Seems the public shares his views: http://www.gallup.com/poll/171740/americans-confidence-news-media-remains-low.aspx … RT@DavidNakamura: Obama’s new boogeyman: The press corps http://wapo.st/1pWUVpn


MINNEAPOLIS – During his two-day tour here, the president has let out his frustrations on the fourth estate for failing, in his view, to cover serious issues facing the American people and instead focusing on the frivolous.

“If you watch the news, you’d think, ‘Okay, Washington is a mess and the basic attitude is that everybody’s crazy,” Obama told a crowd of 3,500 here at the Lake Harriet Band Shell.

Noting that he met with a local resident to discuss her difficulties paying her bills, Obama said: “You don’t see that on TV sometimes. It’s not what the press and pundits talk about. But I’m here to tell you I’m listening.”


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' faith in each of three major news media platforms -- television news, newspapers, and news on the Internet -- is at or tied with record lows in Gallup's long-standing confidence in institutions trend. This continues a decades-long decline in the share of Americans saying they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers or TV news, while trust in Internet news remains low since the one prior measure in 1999.





watch President Obama deliver remarks on the economy during his trip to Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 27, 2014: