American trust in media reaches record low
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Overall, trust in the media has hit a record low. |
| 0:05.5 | It's Kendall a Casey show. I'm Rob. That's Casey. Tell. Tell about how the public is viewing the media. |
| 0:11.6 | Just 28% of Americans say they have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in newspapers, TV, and radio. |
| 0:19.6 | We'll tell you the truth. We'll tell you like it is. You can trust us. |
| 0:22.9 | That is down from 31% in 2023 and 40% in 2019. So this marks the first time that confidence has dropped |
| 0:31.5 | below 30%. Now this is this is Gallup. It is. It's the lowest since Gallup has been tracking this ever. |
| 0:41.0 | Now, what's fascinating to me, so like they go far back, like basically what, |
| 0:47.8 | 19702, and in 1972, this is fascinating to me, the media was had a trust rate of like 72%. |
| 1:03.5 | Correct. |
| 1:04.3 | Look, I hate to break this to you. |
| 1:06.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.9 | But the media, they're human beings. |
| 1:09.4 | They've always, they always, it's a human inclination to have a slant one way or another, |
| 1:15.9 | even if you're trying your hardest to be fair. |
| 1:18.9 | Now, there are people like see the George W. Bush National Guard story that just |
| 1:23.5 | blatantly make up stuff and that gets exposed. |
| 1:30.3 | But I think the biggest issue is that there's less and less of a delineation between |
| 1:38.0 | opinion and hard news. |
| 1:40.3 | And they've sort of morphed into one thing. |
| 1:44.3 | So like if you come to this show, we are not unbiased. |
| 1:49.0 | Correct. |
| 1:50.4 | Like, I don't think you need to know that. |
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