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Chart of the Day: Trust in Media

Crews Bank & Trust Wealth Management Services Oct 7, 2025
Line graph illustrating Americans' trust in newspapers (blue line) and TV news (black line) from 1973 to 2023.

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Today’s Chart of the Day is from Gallup and shows Americans' trust, or lack of, in mainstream media over the past 50 years.

Quite simply, it is not a healthy trend. Americans' confidence in newspapers peaked at 50% in 1980 and is at a dismal 15% today. Similarly, the American trust in TV news has also fallen from a peak of 45% in 1995, to an even worse 10% today.

Can the media change directions to improve? Or is the trend on track to continue, potentially, to (an impossible?) zero.
Chart of the Day

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Crews Bank & Trust Wealth Management Services
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