Nearly Half of All Voters Think Media Make Up Stories About Trump

[BoAtlantis]

"Only 28 percent think the government should have the power to revoke broadcast licenses of major news organizations that it says are fabricating news stories about a president or the administration, while 51 percent think the government should not be able to do that. Another 21 percent are undecided.

Voters are split along party lines on this question, too. More than two-thirds of Democrats, 68 percent, think the federal government should not have the power to revoke broadcast licenses of those organizations. But more Republicans, 46 percent, think the government should have that power than the third of GOP voters who don’t think so."


Media is part of free speech.

How does anyone reconcile support for free speech while maintaining the belief that the government should be able to revoke broadcast license?

[BoAtlantis]

The Media should really listen to Jim Lehrer here (last two min of this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiYohKps70M) if they want to regain credibility with the  people . There is a reason PBS is significantly more trusted than Cable News , and the reasons Lehrer outlined in the last two minutes of that video are why.

Action speaks louder than words.

When it comes to obtaining objective information, PBS is a better source than FOX or MSNBC but at the end of the day, viewers want to be entertained. They go to news that tell them what they want to hear.

Not that I think the public's distrust in media is unfounded, but their eroding credibility could be much more due to electorate's greater polarization and partisanship. When has cable news not ever been biased?