{"id":557,"date":"2009-09-15T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2009-09-15T10:24:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:24:53","slug":"news-you-already-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/557\/news-you-already-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"News You Already Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Pew Research Center for the People &amp; the Press released one of its periodic assessments of public attitudes toward news organizations.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s major findings:\u00a0 &#8220;The public&#8217;s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades&#8230; Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get their facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Similarly, only about a quarter (26%) now say that news organizations are careful that their reporting is not politically biased, compared with 60 % who say news organizations are politically biased.\u00a0 And the percentages saying that news organizations are independent of powerful people and organizations (20%)\u00a0 or are willing to admit their mistakes (21%) now also match all-time lows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, only a handful of major news organizations reported the Pew Study.<\/p>\n<p>The entire Pew study can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/543\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Pew Research Center for the People &amp; the Press released one of its periodic assessments of public attitudes toward news organizations. It\u2019s major findings:\u00a0 &#8220;The public&#8217;s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades&#8230; Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}