Minority says ‘fake news’ should be protected by First Amendment
By Mike Snider | USA TODAY
More than half of Americans think the U.S. media reports news with a bias. The good news? The press gets a better grade today than in recent years, according to a new survey.
The 20th annual State of the First Amendment survey, out Thursday from The First Amendment Center at the Newseum Institute in Washington, D.C., found 57% of Americans who participated in the survey said that the news media report with bias.
Even at a time when the Trump Administration is clashing with the mainstream media, this response is better than in 2016 when 77% of Americans said the media was biased. A similar response was found in 2015, when 76% answered that way. Respondents thought more favorably of the press in 2013 and 2014, when 54% and 59% said they thought the media were biased.
