17 Replies to “Not Waiting For The Asteroid”

  1. Too bad age groups are not broken down…Distrust in media does not necessarely mean, the political junkies of Right leaning influence like most of us here at SDA are “winning”.
    I suspect there is a good chunk of the population, specifically the younger demography that distrust media for being too right or neocon to be trusted.
    Today’s perception of the “Right” is something closer to Centre than it was just a few decades ago.
    All thanks to our beloved education system, pop culture and even our collective move out of natural country surroundings in favor of metropolitan life which I truly now believe rots ones brain.

  4. Surprised you didn’t also show the chart below. Almost 4x as many say media is too liberal vs. too conservative:
    The majority of Americans (60%) also continue to perceive bias, with 47% saying the media are too liberal and 13% saying they are too conservative

  6. Interesting chart – seems the tipping point for media’s public credibility was mid 2006, then public distrus of MSM really took off mid 2008. No what seminal events took place in this time where media perceptions were at odds with mainstreet realities? Could it be the annointed one was really a vast fizzel that could only be proped up by media spin? Could it be the public were aware how greatly the media was lying to them about Obama and extended that distrust into what they were being told about the economic depression?

  7. The graph seems to be flat-lining since 2008. It will be interesting to see where it goes from here.

  8. I call them the enemydia.
    I believe they are mostly progressive agenda driven hacks who actually are the enemy of Liberty. It explains why they are so quick to jump in bed with tyrants and thugs the world over; Castro, Chavez, Islamonutjobs, the EU, Trudeau, Layton, Obama
    Their only truths are PC, which allow the minority elites to rule the majority of dumbasses who still believe the media is concerned with facts.
    Polictically Correct = Reality Challenged = Bull S***
    Mock the media at every opportunity people! Mock them mercilessly – they’ve earned it.

  9. An interesting question to ask is how many people have stopped consuming the major media. Going by their combined income numbers over the last few years, the answer is a lot. Stock prices are also down compared to other industries.
    Bankruptcy beckons. Faster please.

  11. The drop in 2004 is striking. Note that – in the U.S., of course, this was a presidential election year – and one that, to any unbiased observer, much of the media threw objectivity to the wind and actively campaigned for John Kerry. (The Dan Rather incident, of course, is one of the most infamous).
    That’s not to say the media was fair and balanced before 2004 – it wasn’t – but 2004 was the first time, in my memory at least, that they no longer seemed to care about maintaining the appearance of objectivity.
    They appear never to have fully recovered from that, likely a result of the continuing push of leftist ideology over news.

  12. People are gullible and stupid. But then our public indoctrination centres are partially responsible for that.

  13. I would guess that the downturn in 2005 was caused by the gradual realization that there were no WMDs to be found in Iraq. Note, I’m not saying there were never any there, because it remains possible that some were hidden around 2003, but it did become a widely reported “fact” around 2005 that intel reports had been in error on this question.
    Note also there was a downturn in 2008-09, that was probably due to a few people giving up their faith in the media because they saw how Obama was being spun.
    The fact that 40% continue to have faith in the media and Obama’s polling numbers usually show up near 40% indicates to me that most of the people who still believe the mainstream media are (in American terms) liberal Democrats.
    However, for most of us, it’s not an either-or situation. Perhaps we still listen to the mainstream media and take what we believe to be factual while rejecting what we believe to be mere opinion disguised as fact. For example, I watched CNN and CBC during the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and then augmented my understanding of events from the internet. But I would only listen to Kevin O’Leary on economic questions from those two sources, although it causes cognitive dissonance to have such an obvious libertarian within the walls of the Mother Ship.
    I wonder how many of the 40% who say they do trust the mainstream media would say they only trusted Fox or the new Canadian alternative source Sun Network, or certain conservative newspapers, because to some extent, these could be classified as alternative media and that would reduce the 40% figure. But we can’t see that distinction in the polling numbers.

  14. Oh, jeez. Gallup typically only calls just over 1,000 people, and they admit their results are only accurate to +/- 3%. This isn’t a trend; it’s just noise to anyone with a modicum of statistical training.

  16. Like last nights polls on who won the republican debate, the in house one had DR Paul at 80% it was made to go away then the online foxnews poll that had him at 40% was also disappeared.
    Then this morning they claim that one of the RINO’s Romney or the other guy, who cares, they both have been hand picked by the same people who hand pick the big 0.
    Trust the media? PLEASE!
    What I found the most disheartening was even sunnews did it this morning.
    Disgust is not a strong enough word.

  17. It’s a pointless question to debate.
    News media have never been trustworthy … not ever.
    The big problem in today’s world is the monoculture that exists in the business.

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