Public becoming more skeptical of mainstream media

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=275106

But some of the harshest indictments of the press now come from the growing segment that relies on the Internet as its main source for national and international news.

The Internet news audience – roughly a quarter of all Americans – tends to be younger and better educated than the public as a whole. People who rely on the Internet as their main news source express relatively unfavorable opinions of mainstream news sources and are among the most critical of press performance. As many as 38% of those who rely mostly on the Internet for news say they have an unfavorable opinion of cable news networks such as CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, compared with 25% of the public overall, and just 17% of television news viewers.

The Internet news audience is particularly likely to criticize news organizations for their lack of empathy, their failure to 'stand up for America,' and political bias. Roughly two-thirds (68%) of those who get most of their news from the Internet say that news organizations do not care about the people they report on, and 53% believe that news organizations are too critical of America. By comparison, smaller percentages of the general public fault the press for not caring about people they report on (53%), and being too critical of America (43%).

The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, conducted July 25-29 among 1,503 adults, finds a continuing pattern of deep partisan differences in public views of news organizations and their performance. Far more than twice as many Republicans as Democrats say news organizations are too critical of America (63% vs. 23%), and there is virtually no measure of press values or performance on which there is not a substantial gap in the views of partisans.








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Television News is a propoganda machine and the Youth of America know it
Credibility and Trust is gone
Pew is lying about the stats but hey they see a credibility problem

So.... the "Internet news audience" is better educated and more critical of the MSM... but more than half of this group criticizes it as being too critical of America?

:wtf:

I've got to say, I expected the exact opposite from the Internet community, especially after Pew identified them as better educated. If this is all true, and not just Pew being itself, then we're in worse shape than I thought.

itnernet users. Who knows these days...there's so much propaganda one doesn't even know if the Polling Organizations aren't on the take....:shrug:

they know Internet Users don't get their News from TV

the days of TV News and newspapers are going bye bye

"too supportive of America"? MKJ

No, I don't think so.

what part of the internet group does that make me...I have been on computers since 1987 and on the internet since 1995. Maybe I am different from a lot of people my age. But if they took away my internet I would go nuts. I could do without TV. But not the internet..And I do think that the cable and network news is all republican...republican, celebs, sports players and nothing about what is really going on in our country and what the bush administration has done to it in just 6 and a half years.

I think cable, network news and newspapers should be shut done and everyone HAVE to get their news from the net.

Of course, when Rupert Murdoch, et al....own everything, that doesn't make for a very 'diverse' community does it?

Fairness Doctrine, anyone?

25 y/o "hot" republican with an agenda? And not a 75 y/o granny? :shrug:

How would we know the difference?