{"id":900,"date":"2018-01-23T18:27:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/?p=900"},"modified":"2018-08-14T14:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T14:29:58","slug":"2018-media-trust-poll-what-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/2018-media-trust-poll-what-it-means\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 media trust poll &#038; what it means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fwashingtonpost%2Fvideos%2F10157355932152293%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=480\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gallup&#8217;s not-so-surprising poll finds that media trust depends on which side of the fence you&#8217;re on.\u00a0 Some 84 percent of Americans believe the news media has a critical role to play in a democracy, but nearly 70 percent of Republicans ranked the media unfavorably, compared to 54 percent of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Forty percent of Republicans say that negative stories about conservative politicians are &#8220;always&#8221; fake news.\u00a0 So, in this case, &#8220;fake&#8221; is not a reflection of veracity but rather just another partisan position.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/trust-media-and-democracy\/10-reasons-why-americans-dont-trust-the-media-d0630c125b9e\">Knight Center<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_media_today\/the-media-today-reader-trust-splits-democrat-republican.php\">Columbia Journalism Review<\/a> articles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup&#8217;s not-so-surprising poll finds that media trust depends on which side of the fence you&#8217;re on.\u00a0 Some 84 percent of Americans believe the news media has a critical role to play in a democracy, but nearly 70 percent of Republicans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/2018-media-trust-poll-what-it-means\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}