Extinction by suicide;
In 2003 27.4% of the poll’s respondents said that they trusted all or most of what the MSM reports. In 2007 that number plummeted to just 19.6%. 23.9% said they believe little or nothing that comes out of the MSM.
(h/t to reader OttRob)
This can’t be true. Where the heck is Ted and his feelings to rebut this?
“Poll: Only 19% of Americans Implicitly Trust Media”
Seeing how the media is the primary tool for conditioning the population, perhaps a better poll question would be ;
“do you believe most of what you know to be real/correct/acurate?”
Outside of the various media exactly where has the North American public been learning what they consider to be the bulk of their knowledge?
Along with newspaper subscriptions being down so are library card holders and book sales.
Over at publications.mediapost.com, there is a news headline saying ‘Goldman Sachs Predicts Grim Year for Newspapers’.
They predict a decline of 7.9% in revenues for the papers in 08, due to downturn in economy.
See when this capital R(ecession) gets rolling downhill, there is no telling where it is going to stop.
‘They predict a decline of 7.9% in revenues for the papers in 08, due to downturn in economy.’
That is laughable…
Any decline will be because people mistrust the dead tree industry!!!
make no mistake – liberal control of the MSM is absolute….
I do find it encouraging however that more than 80% of those polled recognize the inherent left-leaning bias of the MSM news organizations who now try to “shape” attitudes and opinions rather than simply reporting the “facts” in an honest and straightforward manner – blogsites like SDA can thus be regarded as important vehicles in the effort to preserve and restore the traditions and values which once made this country great…
The 19% trusting implicitly the media I suspect: either wear dentures and have hit their clicker for 30 years to CBS Evening News, have found the right paper/station to match their set of biases and think that is the full universe of ideas out there or couldn’t decipher the poll question through no fault of their special ed teacher.
Like I said before What Liberal Bias?
And still the trolls will come around and lecture us on the topic of tin foil hats!
BTW – follow the links provided in the post at USS Neverdock!
A cross post from the Mr. Carlin (CBC Ombudsman) thread:
“I’ve just sent the following to Mr. Carlin:
“Dear Mr. Carlin
“The CBC reporter has just said, on the CBC Radio 2 Six O’clock News, in regard to the Toronto District School Board Falconer Inquiry, that the inquiry was instigated by the ‘stabbing’ of a 15 year old student at a school in the ‘Jane/Finch’ neighbourhood.
“Yes, the incident happened at C. W. Jefferys School in the Jane/Finch area. But, NO, the student, a black drug dealer, was not stabbed—in the arm?—but SHOT DEAD in the school.
“This issue has been under heavy public scrutiny for more than seven months. With nearly $3 million of taxpayer money available to the CBC on a daily basis, how could such a matter of FACT be so seriously misreported?
“I look forward to hearing from you.
“Sincerely . . .
“P.S. I’m a very good editor and have some time on my hands: I’d be happy to vet your newscasts for accuracy.”
Words almost fail me . . .
Yo RockyT – in the face of all that the National Post has actually raised the price for its Daily! Just tightening the noose around their own neck. I have been a dedicated buyer of the Post but with this price increase and the general downturn in the quality of the product, instead of buying the paper six days a week, I am now buying it three times a week.
How does that Simon & Garfunkel song go? “I get all the news I need from the weather report”.
I refuse to watch CBC even to watch a hockey game. I rarely watch CTV and have been known to change channels when I find out that they are doing the Canadian commercials on the American network. I almost never watch Global CNN or MSNBC. Once in a while I look at the local “Paper of Record” because it is now a freebie at the local coffee shop.
I much prefer the news and views I get from blogs. I only wish that the Lib Blogs and the Dipper blogs had more intellectual content and a lot less foul language. As my high school English teacher used to say, “If you have to use foul language to make your point, you probably don’t have a point worth making.”
I agree Different Bob.
I get 2 papers every day out of habit.
I have to confess that I’m badly addicted to news papers, news channels, and best of all, the up-to-the minute news on the internet.
Man, it took me years to beat my addiction to car magazines, but not until I acquired several thousand of them (almost all in excellent shape too) going back to the 1950s.
But when the price of newspapers gets too high, I’ll drop them too, and just go with the instantaneous NetNews.
And the great thing about the Netnews is that we can talk to others right away about the slant or truth in the story.
Always great to see what others thing about a story.
PS
I forgot to add that that its always great to see what others also think about a story.
I probably wouldn’t want to ask about what you thing, in mixed company.
Heh.
That leaves 56.5% of people that can’t think at all? Were they watching the Simpsons? Maybe they just sit there and drool while the moving pictures go by?
Lamestream media is trusted by one in five people? Fools. By the way, a rich uncle of mine in Nigeria passed away recently, he left me millions but I need some money in order to transfer that money out of….
BWAHAHA it’s all a part of the GRWS…except it’s not a conspiracy but a gathering of like minded folk. I suggest the great leftwing conpiracy is our nemeses.
NBC got 10.9% (ouch!), ABC 7%(ouch!), local news 6.9%(ouch!), CBS News 6.8% (ouch!)(ouch!), MSNBC 4%(ouch!)(ouch!)(ouch!), PBS News 3%(ouch!)(ouch!)(ouch!)(ouch!), and CNBC .6%(ouch!)(ouch!)(ouch!)(ouch!)(ouch!)
One has to wonder how many MSM jobs Kate has cost,
🙂
philanthropist LOL I have a lot of rich relatives in Afrika too.
Wonder If I can go to the bank and get a loan based on the email as collateral.
I wish Macluhan was still alive; to him, this would be a trivial exercise. If you can read 200 words per minute (which is much higher than the average reader), you’re absorbing information at 200 words * 8 characters per word (average) * 8 bits per character = 12,800 bits per minute. TV and Internet video provide (depending on your connection) millions of bits per second. Why would people choose for their primary source of information a medium that’s 100 times slower than another?
Don’t get me wrong; I read a paper almost every day. I was a Globe and Mail carrier for 7 years as a young boy/teenager – that got me up every day, 6 days a week, at 5:30 am. These days, it’s the Post, where I read the first section in its entirety; skim Arts & Life (except for the puzzles, which I do every day), skim the sports section (which, given the dismal performance of Toronto sports team, is still a masochistic experience), and surprisingly, barely read the Financial section. For business news, I rely on a bunch of websites and CNBC – faster, clearer data without near as much spin. CNBC updates me on 15 key metrics every ten seconds – no newspaper can hope to keep up with that.