Monday, September 14, 2009

Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low: Overview - Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate. That percentage had fallen sharply by the late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade.

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