Unimpressed with the press

Published August 7, 2020 3:00am ET



You don’t have to take our word for it, but studies show that people in the United States don’t trust the media.

“A great deal” of political bias skews the news, 49% believe, according to a massive poll of 20,000 people in a study by the Knight Foundation. Another 37% say there’s a “fair amount.” That leaves only 14% of the country who think the media is more or less unbiased. And that bugs people more every year. In 2017, about two-thirds said media bias was a major problem. Now, it’s up to three-fourths.

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