The Sept. 13-15 poll — conducted after the CBS News report was questioned but before the network issued a formal apology — found that just 44% of Americans express confidence in the media’s ability to report news stories accurately and fairly (9% say “a great deal” and 35% “a fair amount”). This is a significant drop from one year ago, when 54% of Americans expressed a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the media. The latest result is particularly striking because this figure had previously been very stable — fluctuating only between 51% and 55% from 1997-2003.
Hat Tip – Jeff Jarvis
Hey Kate, remember the old joke about the sign in the store? “In God we trust, all others pay cash.”
I would like to submit the following for your consideration:
“In Kate we trust, all others play catch-up.”
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You’re too kind.
Last night I switched over to CBC to see what form their coverage of the Iraqi Prime Minister’s speech before the US Congress took.
Well, there was no coverage of the speech. Sure, they used a quick clip of it as a hook to introduce Neil MacDonald’ (I think?) and a whining litany of bad news and Bush criticism on Iraq.
I try to be fair, you know. I gave them about…. 10 seconds. And then switched back to some fluff entertainment show on CTV. Figured that at least _they_ weren’t pretending to be something it wasn’t.