As Popularity of Sites Like Talk of the Sound Grows, Few Americans Trust Newspapers and TV News

Written By: Robert Cox

Who you gonna believe? Newspapers or your lying eyes?

In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity

Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news — with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in either. These views have hardly budged since falling more than 10 percentage points from 2003-2007.