Low as public trust in the media has been for decades, partisanship is driving it lower still. Gallup reports:

Americans’ confidence in two facets of the news media — newspapers and television news — has fallen to all-time low points. Just 16% of U.S. adults now say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers and 11% in television news. Both readings are down five percentage points since last year.

It is likely that more people believe Elvis is still alive than in the propaganda spewed by the liberal establishment media.

Unsurprisingly, Democrats are seven times more likely to have confidence in newspapers than Republicans (35% vs. 5%). Note that even among Dems, only one in three take newspaper reporting at face value.

The power of the media depended on its credibility. That was squandered.

Now its only purpose is to generate background noise, making liberal dogma so ubiquitous that it is accepted subliminally, even by people conscious that everything the media tells us is propaganda. This can be countered by poking holes in leftist lies at every opportunity.

On a tip from jas_1985.

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