Accuracy in Media

Local television news, long the largest source of income for local stations, has been losing audience steadily over the last decade and took yet another downturn last year, according to a new study by the Pew Center for Journalism and the Media. Among the findings: Local news continues to garner more audience that cable news, […]

A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that Republicans were more likely than Democrats or independents to believe that America ‘stands above’ other nations in the world in greatness: In a Pew Research survey released Friday, a majority of Americans, 85 percent, said that either the United States “stands above all other countries […]

  On Tuesday, the Pew Research Center released the results of its year-long study on political polarization in America, and media habits. Even though MSNBC may be the most liberal cable news network, it isn’t the one that liberals prefer. Pew found that for those who consider themselves “mostly liberal,” CNN was the main source of government […]

A new Pew Research report finds that MSNBC devoted far more time to the coverage of the events in Ferguson, Missouri than any other cable news network. Yet according to Nielsen, it didn’t help the network’s ratings. According to Pew, MSNBC devoted an average of 68 minutes of primetime news coverage per night to Ferguson […]

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has been tracking views of press performance since 1985.  In September 2011, Pew found that negative opinions about the performance of news organizations now match or surpass all-time highs. In the poll, 66 percent of those surveyed stated news stories often are inaccurate and 77 […]