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To: Brumar89 who wrote (366199)	1/9/2008 9:33:53 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573898

Why don't we trust the media? Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are huge reasons. Consider this, those two outlets, along with the rest of the rightwing media TOTALLY LIED to us for years and years from 2000 to the present, about the biggest issues of our time. And they rarely let people hear the other side of the story. Probably the #1 most trustworthy news source is the New York Times. No wonder the rightwing always attacks it and lies saying it's an arm of the DNC. Total BS. The New York Times has never covered up for any democrats the way Fox and the rightwing media has continually done for Bushies. Huge difference. And now Rupert Murdoch owns the WSJ too so their credibility is contaminated.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (366199)	1/10/2008 1:53:20 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573898

I'm the first to agree. The media was ineffectual when Bush was pushing for a war in Iraq. In some cases, they laid down and played dead; in others they actually promoted the war. I had to turn to the British media and the WWW to get the truth. The media can't screw around anymore; corporate types can't manipulate like they were doing earlier in the decade and still do at Fox News. The internet won't allow it. The media is supposed to be the fourth estate.....they best not forget that role in the future. We've seen it reflected in nearly every poll over the last 10 years or so and here is another one that confirms the downward spiral in trust of the media. In a press release for a Sacred Heart University poll, those respondents who said they believe all or most of what the media has to tell them fell 8% since 2003. In 2003 27.4% of the poll's respondents said that they trusted all or most of what the MSM reports. In 2007 that number plummeted to just 19.6%. 23.9% said they believe little or nothing that comes out of the MSM with 55.3% saying they believe some of what the media churns out.