Study: Everyone Hates News Media

Americans might not be able to agree on the best condiment (ketchup); which way to vote (liberal); or what Outkast album was the best (Atliens), but we do apparently all concur on one thing: News media is mostly garbage. According to a new Gallup Poll, which measured confidence in the news media, Americans’ confidence “is at or tied with record lows.”

The survey of 1,027 adults found that the percentage of people who have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers or television news has dropped to 22 and 19 percent, respectively.

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