Published: September 29, 2015
Americans' confidence in the media has slowly eroded from a high of 55% in 1998 and 1999. Since 2007, the majority of Americans have had little or no trust in the mass media. Trust has typically dipped in election years, including 2004, 2008, 2012 and last year. However, 2015 is not a major election year.
This decline follows the same trajectory as Americans' confidence inmany institutions and their declining trust in the federal government's ability to handle domestic and international problems over the same time period.
