Americans Do NOT Trust the Media. Do You? A Daily RFT Readers Poll

Americans Do NOT Trust the Media. Do You? A Daily RFT Readers Poll

By Nicholas Phillips Fri., Sep. 21 2012 at 12:40 PM

Dontcha trust us, St. Louis?

Negativity toward the media is at an all-time high for a presidential election year. This reflects the continuation of a pattern in which negativity increases every election year compared with the year prior. The current gap between negative and positive views -- 20 percentage points -- is by far the highest Gallup has recorded since it began regularly asking the question in the 1990s.

Yowch.

So whatcha guys think?

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I can only guess what you'll say.

Have at it!

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jbradhicks topcommenter

I've been on the site of half a dozen or so events that got reported in the news. For almost all of them, the reporters got the general gist of it right. But they didn't get the details right for any of them. (And, yes, this does include the one time I was interviewed by the RFT.)

The canonical example, for me, was many years ago, when there was a horrible tragedy at the end of the block I was living on, an entire houseful of kids who died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a blocked furnace flue. The story was reported on in the Post-Dispatch on three consecutive days. Each time they got the actual story right. But each time they spelled the street wrong, and not only did they get the street name wrong, they got it wrong in a different way each day. Considering that the street name could have been checked in under a minute on the metro area street map book that every reporter used to carry back then ... well, you do the math.

NP_DailyRFT

@jbradhicks The devil's in the details. I can only speak to RFT's mistakes. For the bigger, longer features, there shouldn't 'be ANY mistakes, bc we have time to fact-check. For the shorter, "breakier" ones on the blog, there's gonna be mistakes now and again, because 99.9 percent of the time, I throw up blog posts before anybody else has a chance to read them.