The KFF Election Tracking Poll finds the Democratic Party has the edge over the Republican Party on the public’s trust to do a better job dealing with a series of health issues. Six in ten say they trust the Democratic Party to do a better job dealing with women’s access […] Read more »
Finding common ground in rating media
Amid the debate now raging in Washington over whether online news is biased or fake, consider this: What do NationalReview.com, the website of the magazine founded by conservative icon William F. Buckley, and the Nation.com, the Internet arm of the liberal magazine founded by abolitionists in 1865, have in common? […] Read more »
Media Trust Continues to Recover From 2016 Low
Forty-five percent of Americans have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the mass media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” representing a continued recovery from the all-time low of 32% in 2016. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
Americans Still More Trusting of Local Than State Government
Americans continue the decade-long trend of being more trusting of their local government than of their state government. Currently, 72% of U.S. adults say they have a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of trust in their local government, compared with 63% who say the same about their state government. […] Read more »
Here’s how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations (hint: not all that much!)
Surveys about “media trust” suffer from a definitional problem. “Do you trust the media?” is a meaningful question only if we know what “the media” is. Is it The New York Times and CNN? Fox News and Breitbart? Occupy Democrats and your uncle’s memes on Facebook? … All this is […] Read more »
Americans’ Trust in Politicians Hits 10-Year High
Fifty-five percent of Americans said in early September that they have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in politicians — a 10-year high that is up seven percentage points from a year ago and 13 points from the record low of 42% in September 2016. CONT. Jim Norman, […] Read more »