Only 28% of Americans and likely UK//EU citizens believe that TV, radio, and newspapers report news accurately, an opinion poll has indicated.

Americans’ confidence in the mass media has sunk to a record low, with fewer than three in ten now trusting news outlets to report fairly, according to a new Gallup poll.

A poll conducted in September of 1,000 adults showed that only 28% expressed a great deal or fair amount of trust in newspapers, television and radio, down from 31% last year, 40% five years ago, and almost 70% in the 1970s. Meanwhile, 36% reported ’not very much’ confidence, and 34% said they had ’none at all.’

For the first time, confidence among Republicans has collapsed into single digits, with only 8% saying they trust the media. However, 51% of Democrats believed the media reporting.

US President Donald Trump’s rocky relationship with the press has reportedly fueled these splits. A Harvard Kennedy School study found that Trump’s first 100 days in office drew overwhelmingly negative coverage.

The Media Research Center recently estimated that more than 90% of evening newscast stories about him on ABC, NBC, and CBS were unfavorable.

On the 100th day of his second term this year, Trump’s administration issued a press release titled ’100 Days of Hoaxes,’ accusing major outlets of spreading ’a nonstop deluge of hoaxes and lies’ and listing 48 reports it deemed false.

Beyond partisan politics, structural shifts are also eroding traditional media.

A Reuters Institute report in June suggested that podcasters and AI chatbots are playing a growing role in news dissemination, with more than half of Americans under 35 relying on social and video networks as their main sources of information.

Social Media, TikTok, X and Facebook are much more reliable as news sources.  What was once mainstream media is increasingly using social media platforms in a futile attempt to recover its lost audience. You can and should share this story on social media: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

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