Today, we ask our washington journal viewers what is your level of trust. He can also reach us on social media on twitter and on facebook. The Washington Examiner breaks down the gallup poll about the level of trust in the news media. It says the media is taking it on the chin in the area of fake news. According to gallup, less than three in 10 americans have confidence in tv news and newspapers and that is better than last year. 27 havetest survey, confidence in newspapers. For tv, it is worse. 24 percent. From a long range perspective, confidence in newspapers hasnt been high at any point for the past 30 years. In 1990. St was 39 the 27 who have confidence this year is the highest recorded since 2011. Gallup said. A little more from gallup on those numbers, gives a little explanation about what is happening. The bottom line according to gallup is despite recent discussions about fake news and suspicions about the motivations of newspapers as well as tv and internet news, americans confidence in these instant editions has been soft for a long time. They lack confidence in the media as an institution. Stress in mass media is at an alltime low. What President Trump himself said about fake news on russia in february. President trump russia is fake news. This is fake news put out by the media. The real news is the fact that media people, probably from the Obama Administration because we have our new people going in place right now mike pompeo is now taking control of the cia. James comey at fbi. Be coats is waiting to approved. He is a senator and a highly respected one. He is still waiting to be approved. Our new people are going in and while you are at it because you mentioned this wall street journal did a report today that is almost as disgraceful as the New York Times story yesterday. Front page. Director of National Intelligence just put out a statement. Any suggestion the United StatesIntelligence Community this was just given to us is withholding information and not providing the best possible intelligence to the president and his National Security team is not true. They took this front page story out of the wall street journal and they just wrote the story that is not true. I will pay you something, i will be honest. I sort of enjoy this back and forth and i have all my life, but ive never seen more Dishonest Media than the political media. I thought the Financial Media was much more honest. Talking to our viewers today, getting your views on news media. You trust it . Eric, what do you think . Youood morning and thank for giving me this opportunity to speak to america. About the media, it is very sad. I dont trust them at all. Especially after President Trump was elected. The fourth power in america because journalists are rooted opposed to report the facts but there are no more facts, it is about who they like and their political platform and some media have become activists. Msnbc,u look at cnn and it is terrible the way theyre treated me president , even though key is not an angel. I have my own opinion and new data do not believe in them. Host do you have a different opinion about newspapers than Television News . Caller just a slight difference. They are doing the same. If you take the Washington Post the hatred they have against the president is unbelievable. There is nothing good he can say. The Television Media is worse because they have daily contact with us. The consumer. I do not see that much difference. They are still behind the ideology and they are not , onlyg about fact anymore about who they like or who they do not like. Host gary calling from orchard park, new york, on the democratic line. Do you have trust in the news media . Caller i do not and let me give bitxample that is a little different from what other people are calling in to say. I will try to be brief but please let me make my point. Companies, thee corporations, that purchase ads on television and in print media, they are buying editorial favorability. Let me give an example. I travel a lot, to canada, europe, in my business. I know the feelings of the people that have their National Healthcare system. They are relatively happy. What we hear on our own media in the United States is that those people hate their systems. They are very happy im happy with their National Healthcare unhappy with their National Healthcare systems, which is not true. On cspan, please let me make my case, on cspan, i have tried for years, when i got a chance to call in, all the way back to brian lamb, to say, get a hook up in canada, get a hook up in england, for example, and lets find out exactly what those people feel about their National Healthcare system. It never happened. That is a fair statement. The reason i will make right now is that, if you look at cable tv, and mainstream tv, we are inundated with paid advertisements by the pharmaceutical industry. Networks, the the are not about to bite the golden goose that gives them hundreds of millions of dollars a year in paid ads. Host this week, we saw the frustration between the administration and the press he at the whitep house, fox news says White House Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders ripped into cnn at a briefing. Set someone from breitbart news, challenged her on quite the scene and retraction of a recent story was not sufficient enough for the president who took to twitter and said, cnn had to retract a story on russia with three employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do . Fake news. Storyd retracted the linking a trap adviser to Russian Investment Fund your three journalists i do not know if that response is good enough, sanders said. We have gone to a place where, if the media cannot be trusted to report the news, it is a dangerous place for america. Philip calling in from kissimmee, florida, independent line, what is your level of trust in the news media. Caller i grew up reading books in the library, getting information that most people do not read in terms of trying to get the facts. Corporations are taking advantage of history in terms of propaganda to bring people in this country to the point of use that would highlight their income driven agendas. And their political agendas. Most people need to wake up. And start trying to find information. They know most people are way over their heads in terms of time elements and doing what they have to do in this world to survive. The what would you prefer for example, when you watch Television News, do you prefer straight news . A lot of networks have analysts or pungent and give different point of view. What do you think there should be more or less up in the news media . Caller that is a good point. You guys do a good job, amy goodman does a good job of presenting news to the people and letting us see both sides of the coin. I think that is very important. Most people do not have a reservoir of knowledge. Because it is not intellectual, not factual. It is based on opinions like what they see. Something, and it becomes embedded in their mind and then you think it and they divided the country, look at the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln who said united we stand and divided we fall. Wed need ways of coming together, though we are different. They need to bring us together. Host matt calling in from new york on the republican line. Do you have confidence in the news media . Caller absolutely not. I have been following politics over 50 years and the last 20, maybe a little bit longer, it has become ridiculous. The use to report what the previous caller just said, just fax, no matter their political leanings. He can say about the straight news, it is still the people behind the scenes that determine what is news. For instance, this whole thing the socalled dignity of the white house. What dignity are we talking about . The dignity of jfk having different women, even monsters girlfriend in the white house having sex with her . For the dignity of bill clinton and Monica Lewinsky . Or are we talking about the dignity of barack obama, which he cannot be directly tied to it, but directing the irs and that lady pleaded the fifth amendment to prevent the Tea Party Groups from exercising their right to believe. Host on the issue of the media, you are talking about a long time, do you think the press did a better job in the past, 20 years ago or before, then they are doing today . Any jfk time,r the press knew about his affairs and did not report on it. They kept that from the public. Before that, the press kept from the public the fdr true illness, the stuff he was going through. Becoming a gotcha thing. Example wasent donna brazil here to work for cnn and gave hillary the answers in the debate with Bernie Sanders but two weeks ago i saw her with her old cow pal George Stephanopoulos on a sunday morning talk show. What part of that do i not understand . Or thent the media woman from florida, the congressman that was not charged, that was also implicated, why are they getting their questions . Why hasnt seen in invited donna invited cann cnn donna brazil to take questions on why she did what she did . Host lets look at the exchange between Sarah Huckabee sanders and the executive director of the Montgomery County sentinel from maryland. Report onus not to stories of Foreign Countries trying to influence the president ial election . I do not think it is expected that you are not to report on actual news, if there is something there, but there are a lot of things happening in this world that a lot of people would like to hear about, whether job growth, deregulation, tax reform, health care, a lot of those things deserve more coverage and then they get the all we are saying, i think we should take a good look at what we are focused on, that we are covering, and making sure it is accurate and honest. If we make the slightest mistake, the slightest word is off, it is an absolute tirade from a lot of people in this room. News outlets get to go on day after day and cite unnamed sources, use sources without torres without sources, stories without sources, a story where they had to have reporters resign. You are inflaming everybody with those words. This administration has done that. Why in the name of heaven, any one of us are replaceable and, if we do not get it right, the audience can turn the channel or not read us. You have been elected to serve for four years at least, no option other than that. We ask you questions and you provide the answers. You just did something inflammatory for people all over the country who say, the president is right and everybody else is fake media. Everybody in this room is just trying to do their job. I disagree completely. ,f anything has been inflamed it is the dishonesty that often takes place iv news media. By the news media. It is outrageous for you to accuse me of inflaming a story when i was responding to his question. Host jeff on the democratic line, from long island, new york. Good morning. Do you have trust in the news media . Caller i have so little trust in the media, i am disappointed, i have been a democrat for so many years and i what from msnbc to npr, and it is a complete embarrassment. My party is falling apart. Host what do you think the problem is . What is it that you see as falling apart in the broadcast Media Outlets you mentioned . Caller they are looking for ratings and they have not been able to win an election with legitimate points. They are hyperbolic. And i have Health Insurance from the health exchange. I live in new york. I am paying 800 per month for one person. It is off the charts. If i continue to go like this, i will be bankrupt. For me to listen to chuck schumer, who is also from new york, to tell me and cry that people are going to die. If something does not change, people will go bankrupt. Host what do you think the solution is . Do you think there should be what would you like this in your newspapers and television stations focus on more . Caller i would rather them be honest instead of paint and entertainment show. Pure news is important but i do not need their inflections about to sell their points, just give facts, people can decipher what is best for them. Calling in from san augustine, texas, republican line. Caller how are you doing . Host good, what is your level of trust in the news media . Caller i do not trust our news media, cnn, or any of the big ones. We finally have a good president who is getting things done and i think the news media is scared he will get more done than any other president already has. We have a president , when he says he will get something taken care of, he does it and i back him 110 because he is fighting this stuff overseas and taking care of things that we needed taking care of. As far as the russia thing, they need to drop all of that for one reason, the news media has done nothing but turn russia against us in a lot of ways. It is not right. Host if you do not trust cnn and other Television Networks, where do you get your news . Caller i get it off the tv early in the morning. On the today show and stuff. They are just repeating stuff cnn has reported. Upt gets me is that they dig all the trash on anybody and put it on public air. One of the things that is destroying our society is twitter and facebook. It is common trash. It is not right. Host francis calling in from bellevue, washington, democratic line. Do you trust the media . Caller i do, at least 40 . The news part i get the most from is what i see. I see some of the demonstrations. When you allow me to actually see what is going on, and i like that. I also like the editorials that i read. I could newspapers and lots of magazines i take newspapers and lots of magazines and i am an old woman, and i really read. I hear a lot of people i will not dwell on this, who are satisfied with the medical service they have. Those are not the people calling in. The discontented people are calling in and i listen to what they say, that that is just fine. But i get my news from what our president tweets. He does a whole lot of tweaking tweeting. I guess that is fact. What i actually can see and certainly here analysis of it. I appreciate what the editors do. I appreciate the reporters. And i am 86 years old. I have some health issues. They are being addressed. I do have medicare. Before i had medicare, i had insurance that i had to pay for. Unlike so many people i hear, i did work. I work for 40 years. That has been a blessing for me. I appreciate that. Leadership current is where we begin getting some of the accuracy from. Host a little bit more about the cnn story, whose retraction caused a stir at the white house. The Washington Post says the story debacle came at the worst time for the network, the network is a frequently subject of scorn by the president. The story on cnn. Com reported citing one anonymous source that Senate Investigators were looking into a meeting between a member of the president s transition team, a wall street financier, and the executive of a russian russian Investment Firm before Donald Trump Took Office and advance the narrative of ties between the Trump Campaign and people close to russian president vladimir putin. One problem, when challenged on the story, cnn said it could not stand by it and retracted it and apologized. Monday, reporters and the editor of the peace resigned from cnn. The sequence of events let donald trump to take a kind of victory left on tuesday, he turned to twitter to bash cnn and other Media Outlets that have aggressively reported on a his associates connections to russian officials during the 2016 campaign and before the inauguration. Cindy, independent line, maryland, what are your thoughts . Caller quickly, i am getting ready to go to work. Teenager living in europe in the very early 1970s. When i would come back to the United States for summer vacations with my family, i began to notice, this is of a very young age at 12, 13, 14, the differences of information that is being supplied to citizens. What i would see and what i would read while i looked over there was different than what was being written in the newspapers we would have from our home town every sunday. We got the paper and every wednesday overseas. I noticed that and noticed that for the four years i lived in europe as a teenager, leaving at 16. That is something i have noticed. As i talk to people over time, i describe that, that disparity that i noticed, even at the tender age of 12. Host how was it different, more of a focus on local news . What was different with the european News Coverage . Caller this was around the time i am trying to think of what was going on but there was the remnants of the watergate situation. A lot of political things. In my journalism class in high school, i was studying to be a journalist, we would look at these disparities and talk about it. And look at the sources. Wave hasknow when this i noticed decades ago, for decades ago has turned into the synonymy it is. Tsunami it is. It has been there a long time. Thenology has made incidences of these things more apparent, like the internet. Everything has been exploded in the last 10, 15, 20 years with the internet. Counterterrorism has been going on for decades. That is what a lot they talk about the hacking into the convention and the russia situation. These are just counterterrorism activities, going on for decades, it seems like it is a larger but because of