CBS’ Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Election Year

In an election where Americans finally began to tune out legacy media, CBS drove the decline.

A new Gallup poll from October found Americans’ trust in mass media hit a new low with just less than a third maintaining a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of confidence in newspapers, television networks, and radio to report on events “fully, accurately and fairly.” The survey results were published about two weeks after CBS moderated the vice-presidential debate that gave Americans good reason to stop believing corporate media was the appropriate medium for facilitating U.S. elections.

If CBS executives believed they could rehabilitate the media’s image as a trusted avenue of fair and balanced information to guide voters in an election year, they have been proven

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