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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 26 May 2017
Americans don’t trust media, but feel better about favorites

DAVID BAUDER the survey.
AP Television Writer “These are folks that grew
NEW YORK (AP) — While up entirely in this fragment-
Americans have doubts ed landscape,” Rosenstiel
about how much they said. “They’re suspicious
should trust the “news me- of any media that says,
dia” in general, a poll by ‘We’re just telling the story
the Media Insight Project as we see it, without any
released Wednesday sug- bias.’”
gests they have a higher The survey also uncov-
opinion of the sources they ered a significant number
personally rely upon to fol- of people — one-third of
low the world. those who responded —
The survey by the project, who said they have difficul-
a partnership between The ty distinguishing between
Associated Press-NORC news and opinion. The per-
Center for Public Affairs Re- centage is higher among
search and American Press Republicans.
Institute, echoed the phe- “It’s very hard to distinguish
nomenon where people what is a news show and
express distaste for politi- In this Feb. 22, 2017, file photo, reporters raise their hands as White House press secretary Sean what’s not a news show
cians yet support their local Spicer takes questions during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House when Rachel Maddow is
representatives. in Washington. Associated Press co-anchoring news cover-
Only 17 percent of people age with Brian Williams,”
judged the “news media” said Tom Rosenstiel, execu- once a day, and 58 per- licans it’s CNN and for inde- Rosenstiel said.
as very accurate but twice tive director of the Ameri- cent said they follow news pendents it’s Fox News. The poll of 2,036 adults
as many said the same can Press Institute. several times daily, the poll Seventy percent of Repub- was conducted March
thing about the news sourc- Mistrust in the media has found. licans say the “news me- 8-27, with funding from the
es they visit most often, the soared since the post-Wa- Fragmentation means dia” is too liberal, while 63 American Press Institute.
poll found. Ask about other tergate days when many many different sources to percent said their favorite Half were asked about “the
attributes and it’s the same journalists were seen as follow. The most-used out- source is “just about right.” news media” and half were
pattern: 24 percent judged heroes. The fragmentation let by both Democrats and News executives will likely asked about “the news
the media as a whole as of media, the increase in independents is CNN, al- be disheartened to learn media you use most often.”
moral, while 53 percent partisan media outlets and though it was able to get that young people polled The poll used a sample
said that about their favor- an aggressive anti-media first place among indepen- are much more suspicious drawn from NORC’s prob-
ites. Twenty-seven percent stance by some commen- dents with only 20 percent of the media than their ability-based AmeriSpeak
said the media was willing tators and politicians have of citations. Forty percent elders. Eleven percent of panel, which is designed
to admit mistakes, and 47 all contributed, he said. of Republicans said that people under age 40 said to be representative of the
percent said that about Personal devices put news Fox News is their most fre- they have a lot of trust U.S. population. The margin
their sources. at the fingertips of most quently relied-upon source. about information they get of sampling error for each
“The whole question of trust Americans today. Four out The second most-used from the media, while 22 set of respondents is plus or
in the media is more com- of five people say they outlet for Democrats is The percent of people 40 and minus about 4 percentage
plicated than we think,” check the news at least New York Times, for Repub- over say that, according to points.q
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison honored by Authors Guild

NEW YORK (AP) — Toni Mor- for her contributions as an day night when he said
rison praised the power of editor and educator. that Patterson’s latest con-
literature and the “com- “We’re all here together,” tract called for 22 books,
munity” of writers. James Morrison reminded the au- to come out in two years.
Patterson told some jokes, dience, which included Patterson spent much of
and even sang. such fellow authors as Eri- his speech mocking his
Both received Distin- ca Jong and Walter Mos- own image. He conjured
guished Service Awards ley. “We are a necessary a daily ritual in which he
Wednesday night at the community.” wrote multiple outlines for
25th annual Authors Guild Morrison warned of the novels in the morning and
dinner gala, held in Man- dangers of “ignorance,” ordered a gaggle of co-
hattan. The Guild, which and called for language to writers, kept under lock
represents thousands of be given its rightful place and key, to finish the job.
published writers, also as a force of “power” and There were jokes about
gave a service award “eloquence,” rendered President Donald Trump, a
to the heads of the self- “one book at a time.” gag about writing a “truer
publishing platform In- Patterson, 70, was honored than truer crime” book with
gramSpark. not only for his extraor- Russian President Vladimir
The 86-year-old Morrison, dinary commercial suc- Putin, some profanity and,
who won the Nobel lit- cess, more than 300 million In this May 29, 2012 file photo, author Toni Morrison receives her to top it off, a few words
erature prize in 1993, was books sold worldwide, but Medal of Freedom award during a ceremony in the East Room from the song “You Light
cited by longtime editor also for donating millions of of the White House in Washington. Up My Life.”
Robert Gottlieb for liter- dollars to librarians, book- Associated Press “I did not steal that from
ary achievements in such sellers and schools. times turns out best-sellers book deals, Washington Will Ferrell’s speech at
novels as “Beloved” and Patterson’s productivity is on a monthly basis. The attorney Robert Barnett, USC,” he added.q
“Song of Solomon,” and hard to match. He some- man who negotiates his was not kidding Wednes-