Good News for TV news organizations: public confidence in TV news is up from 2010, according to a new poll from Gallup. Gallup has been measuring the confidence Americans have in TV news and newspapers annually since 1990.
The new results show that confidence in TV news is at 27%, up from a record-tying low of 22% last year.
Gallup digs into the demographic data, and the results are somewhat surprising:
Confidence in newspapers and television news increased across most key subgroups, with the biggest across-the-board improvements among 30- to 49-year-olds and men. The views of Americans aged 18 to 29 exhibited the most mixed year-to-year change, with this group showing a 10-point increase in confidence in television news but a 10-point decrease in confidence in newspapers. While members of this group remain among the most confident in each, their views are now on par with those of Democrats and liberals. Republicans also showed inconsistent movement in their opinions, registering a nine-point increase in their confidence in television news and essentially no change in their views of newspapers. Interestingly, considering the highly polarized nature of cable news, all ideological groups increased their trust in television news to about the same degree.
You can read the entire report from Gallup here.