Fewer See Accuracy, Fairness in Press Get facts straight Deal fairly with all sides
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.
Fewer See Accuracy, Fairness in Press  | Get facts straight  | Deal fairly with all sides  | 39  | 27  | 18  | 1985  | 1989  | 1993  | 1997 2001  | 2005  | 2009 