Pew Survey: Journos Simultaneously Loved and Loathed

Good news journalists! According to the Pew Research Center’s biannual media attitudes survey, the public is slightly more okay with your existence than in the past—at least in some respects.

They still, by and large, think you focus too much on unimportant stories, are barely ever accurate, try to cover up your mistakes, favor one side over the other and take your cues from the world’s powerful. And it’s just getting worse.

Ratings of the press have become much more negative since Pew Research first began measuring attitudes in 1985.

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