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The People v/s The Press

And The Press comes out looking pretty shabby... From The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press:

Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low
The public�s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans� views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.

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.

And, as a picture tells a thousand words: It was interesting to read the various reports about the TEA party march on Washington, D.C. An initial report pegged it at 6 million people but the official figure was 2.7M. The New York Times and NPR published reports of tens of thousands of people marching... Posted by DaveH at September 15, 2009 1:55 PM