Americans’ Assessment of the Media ‘the Grimmest in Gallup’s History’

CRAIG BANNISTER | OCTOBER 20, 2023

Americans’ appraisal of the media is now “the grimmest in Gallup’s history,” the iconic polling company reported Thursday.

For the second straight year – and only the second year in Gallup’s half-century of surveying the subject – the percentage of Americans who have no confidence at all in the media has surpassed the combined percentages of those with either a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust.

In a national survey, conducted September 1-23 of this year, Gallup asked U.S. adults to rate their trust that media are reporting news “fully, accurately and fairly”:

“In general, how much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media -- such as newspapers, TV and radio -- when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly -- a great deal, a fair amount, not very much or none at all?”

A record-high 39% said they have no trust at all, while the 32% who said they have either a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in the media’s news reporting tied its record low, set in 2016.

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