Media Credibility Numbers Shrink to New Low

It seems according to a new Pew Research Center survey on media credibility just 29 percent of Americans surveyed believe the media gets the facts right, and a scant 18 percent think news organizations are truly objective. While "Public Evaluations of the News Media, 1985-2009" does not focus on technology's impact on media, those downward trends may intersect with rising chart lines for the use of Web sites and blogs as news sources. Along with that comes better access to information for pointing out journalists' errors and overall critiques of the media. That’s good news. Now if we can just get our kids to remember that everything they read on the Internet isn’t necessarily so, we may be seeing a new era of media literacy.