Why the public hates us
by Mark Oppenheimer, Los Angeles Times
Oct 23, 2017
3 minutes
It's been a rough 12 months for the news media. We got the election wrong, we got booed at campaign events and some of us get death threats on Twitter. The president called us an "enemy of the American people." Lots of us are getting laid off (which at least makes us less likely to get death threats). And in a new Reuters-Ipsos poll, only 48 percent surveyed had a "great deal" or "some" confidence in the journalists.
Now, that's a nine-point jump since November.
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