Poll: Newspaper, TV News Confidence Very Low

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A new poll from Gallupfinds that very few Americans trusts newspapers currently.

The poll surveyed just over 1,500-adults and found that just 23-percent said they had a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence about what they read in newspapers.

Gallupreports this is a drop from 25-percent in 2012, and 28-percent in 2011. Gallup says this is the lowest percentage of trust their poll has found in newspapers in the last five years.

The poll noted the rise of the internet and social media sites and the increasingly partisan nature of cable news as factors in the declining confidence.

Americans' confidence in television news was highest, at 46%, in 1993, when Gallupfirst asked about it. The question does not indicate the specific type of television news, meaning respondents could be thinking about anything ranging from cable news channels to local news when answering the survey.

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