Poll: Trust in Mainstream Media Falls to an All-Time Low
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As lies and deceptions continue to swirl, a recent poll reveals that trust in mainstream media has reached a new record low, with the vast majority of Americans expressing little to no trust in mainstream news.
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From Gallup:
Americans’ confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This is down from 31% last year and 40% five years ago.
Meanwhile, seven in 10 U.S. adults now say they have “not very much” confidence (36%) or “none at all” (34%).
When Gallup began measuring trust in the news media in the 1970s, between 68% and 72% of Americans expressed confidence in reporting. However, by the next reading in 1997, public confidence had fallen to 53%. Media trust remained just above 50% until it dropped to 44% in 2004, and it has not risen to the majority level since. The highest reading in the past decade was 45% in 2018, which came just two years after confidence had collapsed amid the divisive 2016 presidential campaign.
Gallup notes, interestingly, that this distrust is a both-sides issue. Only 8% of Republicans expressed trust in the media. 51% of Democrats expressed trust in the media, a number that Gallup notes is a repeat of a previous low in 2016. Independents, meanwhile, sit squarely in the middle, with 27% expressing confidence in mainstream news.
For savvy intercessors, this should come as no surprise. We have seen the mainstream media lie countless times in recent years about President Trump, COVID-19, the COVID vaccine, Elon Musk, Israel, President Biden, and more. IFA has even started documenting these lies recently with our weekly Three Things the Left Lied About series. With so many prominent, obvious lies, it’s no wonder why Americans, especially on the right, have lost virtually all trust in the mainstream media.
As trust continues to plummet, let’s pray for an end to dishonestly and for a return to integrity in journalism!
How are you praying about the mainstream media? Share your prayers and scriptures below.
(Excerpt from Gallup. Photo Credit: Thom Holmes on Unsplash)
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Most media companies are owned by people who are more socialist and anti godly. So no surprise that the now socialist and anti godly democrats approve of their reporting. People who cherry pick comments from conservatives and then repeat them without knowing the complete context that they were made. God knows and sees all and I trust in God. I ask for God’s guidance when reading or watching about news in this world. God is the way to truth all we need to do is ask for God’s guidance. 🙏😇🙏❤️
When you are talking about events reported in the news, you are crossing over into the material world which means that there should always be ‘proof’ behind any claim made by the press. (Of course, things that are well established such as a politician’s age or political position doesn’t have to be proved each time it is referenced.) In the scripture is says that any prophecy should be judged by those who are mature which clearly implies that Christians can be deceived when they are following their inner feelings. One guardrail used for judging prophecy is the Word of God. As I am sure you realize, God communicated through a written Word for a reason. As He says in His Word, ‘the heart is the most deceitful of all things.’ It is, thus, implied that your heart can deceive you. So, God helps you out by using the material world to verify the accuracy of what you are ‘feeling.’ He uses a physical book.
So, it is fortunate that we have something more to guide us then our emotional feelings when judging what is reported in the news. For any new claim (not previously proved), there should be photographic, video, creditable eye witness accounts and documents from multiple sources to back it up.
I understand how people feel who don’t trust the news from main stream media. Most of the time, those people are turning to the ‘free’ news which is somewhat controlled by who pays for it. Of course, this, unfortunately, includes right wing news sources as well.
Yes, news sources are usually owned by corporations but there are some journalist who could work for any news source and who take responsibility for what they report and it is below their dignity to let some stock holder control what they post. And if the news source of that quality allowed someone to dictate their news, they would loose their audience who is paying to get high quality news. Corporate heads and leaders want accurate news because they make decisions which impact millions of lives. Unfortunately, for this kind f news sources you have to pay to get access to it. But if your experience of news is based on free news sources, you would not have encountered that world.
Granted that main stream media is not accurate in representing politics in this country when reporting about conservative issues, however, they are at least somewhat reliable ( I have high standards) when reporting about foreign events which right leaning news sources tend to ignore for the most part. They also report business and sports events for the most part accurately. But right wing sources leave out information about political events that when included give a deeper understanding of events.
There are also a few news sources and journalist who still stand for the old ethical standards of being neutral. The New York Post broke the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and did not back down even when under attack. The Wall Street Journal has both conservative and liberal opinion pieces and reports the daily news in a neutral manner. They were also the news source that broke the story of the likelihood of a Wuhan lab link and stood by their story even though it was censored by facebook and other media.
The problem with the above posting is that right leaning news sources are no more reliable than left leaning news sources. Therefore, each person has to take responsibility and look at the proof provided whenever an extraordinary claim is made in a media post and when you find a news source that repeatedly makes false claims (like Tucker Carlson), then you have to make a conscious choice to not put any faith in what they say.
Nonsense!
A assume you mean about Tucker Carlson? I guess you missed his interview with someone who he claimed was ‘the most important historian who was alive’ because that person said that the Holocaust happened because ‘Germany didn’t know what to do with large numbers of Jews’ (It was a logistic problem.) And you probably also missed the one where he weirdly claimed that Epstein worked for Israel. And, of course, as always, he provided no proof. And then there was his extraordinary claim that Ukraine was selling American weapons and then later he admitted he had no proof for the claim. Then there was his interview with Putin where Putin gave the same speech he had been making for twenty years (and even had made to Obama )which was laced with known lies which were widely acknowledged and discussed in the rest of the world and Carlson, of course, made no attempt to question Putin about those lies, leaving his viewers with the impression that Putin’s claims were true. And then there was the incident where Trump called him a kook for claiming that bombing Iran would lead to a wider war.
I could go on.
You didn’t mention the infighting between Laura Loomer and Tucker Carson with Loomer saying that Carlson ‘was bought off by the Muslim Brotherhood.’
Good! This is a start! The mainstream media needs to be ignored. Lord Jesus, I pray that they are each exposed for what they all are- pathological liars.
Mainstream media has never had my unquestioning trust, because to a large extent, it has not deserved it! I was encouraged from childhood to put my trust in God alone, knowing that Holy Spirit indwelled me, and would lead me into all Truth. My Father taught me this Truth from I John, and I’m thankful.
1 John 2:26-29 I have written you these things about the people who are trying to deceive you. As for you, the Messianic anointing you received from the Father remains in you, so that you have no need for anyone to teach you. On the contrary, as his Messianic anointing continues to teach you about all things, and is true, not a counterfeit, so, just as He taught you, remain united with Him. And now, children, remain united with Him; so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink back from Him in shame at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you should also know that He is the Father of everyone who does what is right. (CJB)
1Jn 2:26-27 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it (He) hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him. (KJV)
This does not excuse a rebellious spirit, or an attitude of superiority, or a harsh judgmental spirit toward those I disagree with – nor does it excuse a refusal to listen to others – but it does give us permission to question. Actually, not just permission to question, but a responsibility to do so. It is simply being responsible to question fallen man, and even more so unrepentant sinners. Choose sources wisely, and trust Holy Spirit.
Unfortunately, the IFA is not reliable as well. They tend to post MAGA propaganda.
The Woke Left fiercely condemns in others so many things that they themselves practice and approve.. They proclaim to be for unity, diversity, and inclusion, but practice disunity, punishment, and exclusion for anyone who disagrees with them. The tactic is an old one: Always attack your opposition even when they do things you’ve done or approve; always ignore or excuse your own people for doing things you condemn in others.
Father God: In the name of Jesus Christ I ask that the hypocrisy of the Woke Left be exposed and so generally recognized that people–even Leftists–both laugh and cringe at the massive hypocrisy of Woke rhetoric and its deeds. May wokeness produce such a general revulsion that even mainstream media voices begin to ridicule it more and more. Amen.