Reuters poll shows public trust in press on upswing

Public trust in news outlets rose to 48 percent, a nine percent increase since last November. Public confidence in the Trump administration fell during that time. Trump has been assailing the news media at one point calling it the “enemy of the American people.” A Gallup poll in September of 2016 showed public trust in the media at an all time low of 32 percent. (Reuters, October 3, 2017, by Chris Kahn)

Trump has continued to blast the press recently accusing CNN and NBC of covering the Puerto Rico disaster unfairly and regularly calling unfavorable news stories “fake news.” (The Hill, October 3, 2017, by Avery Anapol)