Accuracy in Media

An extensive new Pew Research Center survey has found that 65 percent of Americans think that the news media “has a negative effect on the way things are going in the country,” the worst ranking among the 10 nongovernmental institutions covered in the survey. The negative opinions of the news media weren’t relegated to Republicans—of whom only […]

Donald Graham shook up the newspaper world last week when he agreed to sell The Washington Post to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. But based on the results of a new survey by the Pew Center for the People and the Press, he was probably right—if not a little late to do so. The survey revealed […]

A new study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life shows that Americans have a high regard for the military, but they feel almost exactly the opposite when it comes to journalists. The survey asked Americans to rate certain professions. The military finished on top, with 78% saying that they contribute “a lot” […]

A new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism shows just how extreme MSNBC became as the presidential election wound down, with its overwhelming support for President Obama and negativity towards Mitt Romney. In a previous study by Pew that covered the period of August 27 to October 21, MSNBC reported […]