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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Mainstream media gets a pass on untruthful stories

In spite of a recent survey published Friday indicating that Americans' distrust of the news media has reached an all time high, the mainstream media largely gets a pass from the public on the untruthful stories it often propagates as "news."

According to the latest Gallup poll, 60 percent of Americans say they have little or no trust in the media to report the news "fully, accurately, and fairly."

At the same time, however, Americans apparently do very little to express their discontent with the major offenders at ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, and CNN. In spite of plummeting ratings, which suggests that citizens are at least doing something to express their disapproval, little has changed at the major media outlets. If anything, the bias has gotten worse, not better.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

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