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 While doing one of my recent posts, I looked at the Gallup report on their question about "trust and confidence in the mass media .....

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about claims that people had lost faith in the media because of the coverage of the Russian collusion story-...

My last post questioned the claim that trust in the media dropped substantially during the Trump years.  The idea behind that claim is that ...

 The Columbia Journalism Review recently published a long article by Jeff Gerth on media coverage of Donald Trump.  In the introductory sec...

 In 1944, the National Opinion Research Center asked "In general, do you think Negroes are as intelligent as white people--that is, can...

 In November 1943, a NORC survey asked "If you had a son just getting out of school, would you like to see him go into politics as a li...

 A few years ago, I noted that public opinion towards Martin Luther King was not all that favorable when he was alive.  Some news stories ...