Gallup: Trust In The Media Crashes To Historic Low | Eastern NC Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Hank Berrien.

    Gallup's latest survey on Americans' trust in the mass media paints a stark picture: confidence in newspapers, television, and radio has hit a historic low.

    Only 28% of U.S. adults now say they have a "great deal" or a "fair amount" of trust that news outlets report fully, accurately, and fairly. That's down from 31% last year and a steep fall from 40% just five years ago. In contrast, roughly seven in ten adults express little to no confidence, with 36% saying "not very much" and 34% saying "none at all." This is the first time Gallup has recorded trust dipping below 30% since it began tracking the metric in the 1970s, when roughly 70% of Americans expressed confidence in the news.

    The decline is pervasive across political affiliations. Republicans' confidence, already weak, has plunged to single digits for the first time, with only 8% expressing trust. Independents remain skeptical at 27%, matching last year's record low. Even Democrats, historically the most trusting, register a narrow majority of 51%, echoing lows last seen in 2016. Generational divisions further underscore the crisis: adults 65 and older retain relatively higher trust at 43%, while younger Americans across all party lines rarely exceed 28%.

    These survey results come amid repeated high-profile media failures. The New York Times' false Gaza hospital story in 2023, which relied solely on a Palestinian source, highlighted a pattern of insufficient verification. Similarly, reporting on Vice President Kamala Harris' alleged plagiarism was criticized for deliberately underrepresenting the scope of the issue, contrasting sharply with how the Times covered similar Republican controversies.


    In October, President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation suit against The New York Times. In the suit, Trump accused the Times of printing false and defamatory statements about his business career that damaged his professional reputation.

    The Media Research Center's October 2025 analysis of network coverage during the government shutdown adds another layer: ABC, CBS, and NBC reportedly framed Democrats favorably while heavily criticizing Republicans, with 87% of coverage skewed toward Democratic talking points and only twelve instances of criticism directed at Democrats.

poll#201

Considering what real news is available for all to witness, and in great specificity, should one pursue what is true outside of the channeled realm of the corrupt corporate /legacy media, and: Is Institutionalized Corruption real, and is it a hindrance to sustaining our Constitutional Republic now, and for future generations of American citizens?

  Yes

  No

  Not sure

507 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

poll#180

Now that the public is allowed to know the truth regarding the Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal, after more that 2 1/2 years of deception by the corrupt Corporate Media Kabal, propropagandidats all, and the discredited Deep State, we have NOW learned that the infamous laptop is far less about the Biden Boy's fetish for pornography, narcotics and Russian whores, and far more about Hunter's pivotal role in the Biden Crime Syndicate's selling of deep access to our foreign adversaries, and to what extent it has compromised our national security: What is your opinion about this possible coordinated Treason?

  It is imperative that we know the truth of what may be the greatest scandal in our Republic's history, and all aforementioned parties prosecuted for their crimes against the People.

  Currently, our Two Tiered Justice System is constructed to protect all Democratic Socialists, their corrupt "Journalist" spokes-sheople, and their Deep State enablers ... so why bother.

  It is Donald Trump's fault.

  How can we be assured that the "Laptop" is real? Would NOT our standard journalists have investigated this issue thoroughly nearly 3 years ago if it was real?

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poll#218

Now that President Trump is picking his cabinet and immediate staff to insulate him from the poor judgement of the Bureaucratic Class, while moving quickly to transition this Constitutional Republic unto a wise and sustainable direction: What is your immediate impression as to how our nation will prosper?

  We are headed toward a Golden Age in America's self-governed society.

  This will all wind up in a clustered mess since Trump is a Fascist, and thought to be the second coming of Adolf Hitler by our best journalists.

  This is a time where critical days lay ahead, where only wise and responsible decisions must be made to sustain US.

  I generally do not pay attention, but expect only the best to occur ... and that is what I always expect.

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