Sam Gill, a vice president at the Knight Foundation, joins us to discuss a major new report on the public's eroding trust in U.S. media; the challenges facing the journalism industry in fulfilling its democratic responsibilities; and how party polarization plays a major role in Americans' views of the media. Later, we reveal the percentage of Democrats who identify as liberals and discuss how it has changed since 2001.
Read the full report, American Views: Trust, Media and Democracy.
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Americans widely believe the news media are critical or very important to our democracy but do not believe the media are supporting it well.
Democrats' confidence in the mass media has risen sharply to 72% in 2017, while Republicans' confidence remains low.
Just over a third of U.S. adults in 2017 believe news media generally get the facts straight, the same as in 2003. Republicans and those without a college degree are the most likely to doubt the media's credibility.
A solid majority of Americans do not want political campaigns to be able to micro-target them through digital ads.
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