Poll: U.S. Public Sees Media as Biased, Inaccurate and Uncaring

POLL: US PUBLIC SEES MEDIA AS BIASED, INACCURATE AND UNCARING
[SOURCE: Editor&Publisher]
A poll conducted by the Pew Research Center showed that more than half of Americans say U.S. news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on. Respondents who use the Internet as their main source of news -- which is roughly one quarter of all Americans -- were even harsher with their criticism, the poll reported. More than two-thirds of the Web users said they felt that news organizations don't care about the people they report on; 59 percent said their reporting was inaccurate; and 64 percent they were politically biased. Among those who get their news from newspapers and television, criticism of the news organizations was up to 20 percentage points lower than among Internet news audiences, who tend to be younger and better educated than the public as a whole, according to Pew.
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* Internet News Audience Highly Critical of News Organizations
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=348