Gallop Confidence Drop

In several presentations to CoSIDA, I've referenced a growing gap between trust in social graph - your physical friends and virtual ones through Facebook, etc. - and the media at large. Today's news from the Gallop Poll only adds to that as traditional newspapers and television news hit historic lows.

The numbers are bad for one of our cornerstone institutions of American life. You can read the entire package here.

Newspapers get a 25%, TV news a 21%. The good news? This was a confidence in institutions survey, and the media was right there with most of America's big segments: banks, health care, government - no one did well. It may indicate an overall dissatisfied public, rather than a particular animus toward the media.