US public sees news media as biased, inaccurate, uncaring: poll

topic posted Fri, August 10, 2007 - 11:04 PM by  Kevin
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US public sees news media as biased, inaccurate, uncaring: poll
Published: Thursday August 9, 2007

More than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on, a poll published Thursday showed.

And poll respondents who use the Internet as their main source of news -- roughly one quarter of all Americans -- were even harsher with their criticism, the poll conducted by the Pew Research Center said.

More than two-thirds of the Internet users said they felt that news organizations don't care about the people they report on; 59 percent said their reporting was inaccurate; and 64 percent they were politically biased.

More than half -- 53 percent -- of Internet users also faulted the news organizations for "failing to stand up for America".

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