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Survey: U.S. Trusts the News but Sees Bias WASHINGTON Apr 27, 2005 — Most Americans believe news coverage is biased and negative, but they also say they respect journalists and trust what they hear and read. A national survey conducted by the Missouri School of Journalism's Center for Advanced Social Research found 62 percent consider journalism credible and more than half rated newspapers and television news as trustworthy. At the same time, 85 percent said they detect a bias in news reporting. Of those, 48 percent identified it as liberal, 30 percent as conservative, 12 percent as both, and 3 percent as other bias. Top Stories * Algerian Awaits Sentence in L.A. Bomb Plot * Surrogate Mom Gives Birth to Quintuplets * Cops: Girl Scared to Go Home to Dad's Meth Lab About two-thirds said journalists invade people's privacy too often, while roughly three-quarters said the news is too negative. "The consumers of American journalism respect, value and need it, but they're also skeptical about whether journalists really live up to the standards of accuracy, fairness and respect for others that we profess," said George Kennedy, a Missouri journalism professor and co-author of a study that incorporates the survey results. The survey found that Americans strongly support the investigative or watchdog role of the press, with 83 percent saying it is important for journalists to press for access to information even when government officials would like to keep it quiet. But there was also plenty of criticism. Among the poll's findings: 58 percent said journalists have too much influence over what happens in the world. 74 percent said reporters tend to favor one side over the other when covering political and social issues. About half said the news media tend to exaggerate problems or are too sensational in their coverage. 77 percent said they think a news story is sometimes killed or buried if it is embarrassing or damaging to the financial interests of a news organization. The survey polled 495 adults during June-July 2004 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=707810

Dude, the study comes from fucking Mizzou. How much are we really gonna trust those morons?








Sorry, as a KU alum, we're bred to loathe anything that comes out of Mizzou U.

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48% thinks its too liberal.. interesting...

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Survey: U.S. Trusts the News but Sees Bias WASHINGTON Apr 27, 2005 — Most Americans believe news coverage is biased and negative, but they also say they respect journalists and trust what they hear and read.

WTF!?!?

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Most Americans believe news coverage is biased and negative, but they also say they respect journalists and trust what they hear and read.

Just goes to show how amazingly stupid the average american is..

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

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Originally posted by Trancer-X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

Nice post Trancer.....very interesting......

It couldnt happen today of course.....

I liked this bit of attempted censorship.....

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In 1964 Random House published Invisible Government by David Wise and Thomas Ross. The book exposed the role the CIA was playing in foreign policy. This included the CIA coups in Guatemala and Iran and the Bay of Pigs operation. It also revealed the CIA's attempts to overthrow President Sukarno in Indonesia and the covert operations taking place in Laos and Vietnam.

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The CIA considered buying up the entire printing of Invisible Government

Overall a very good article......

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