Jeremy wrote:
] 26 percent of Repulicans say CNN is credible. 45
] percent of Democrats say CNN is credible.

How much of this is genuine realization of the problems with sensationalistic infotainment, and how much of this is simply an example of the increased stratification of American politics. Whether you are left, or right, you know you've drunk the koolaid when you decide that CNN is controlled by your enemies.

The Republicans have been ramming home the "liberal media" message for years. In other words, don't get your information from the news media, who are mostly lying because they are trying to sell you toothpaste, get it from us, because we're mostly lying because we're trying to sell you an ideology. Is it really surprising that this message has caused 70+ percent of their side to question CNN?

In recent years the left appears to have joined in the fracas. It hasn't been going on for as long, nor is there a "conservative media" meme backing it. There is simply the presumption that the news media, CNN especially, promotes corporate interests because they just another evil corporation. The CNN represents the "right wing" to people who are so far left, and so distrustful of success, that can't see halfway around the political spectrum.

I agree, CNN is not a great source of information. CNN has an agenda. But I don't see any of the above as actual progress. People aren't really realizing that the news media is playing them. They are switching to less objective, less honest sources of information who are playing them even more, with more sinister goals, and they are getting worse, not better, at thinking critically about the information they are being presented.

RE: Fewer Republicans Trust the News