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Saturday Roundup

– The Fox News/Google debate was the highest-rated debate yet.



Last night’s Fox News/Google GOP debate was the highest-rated primary debate yet, averaging over six million total viewers during both the 9 and 10 PM hours. In the key adults 25-54 demo, the debate ranked second behind MSNBC’s September 7 debate.

Pew Research’s annual poll shows exactly what we all know: people really, really don’t trust the media:

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has been tracking views of press performance since 1985, and the overall ratings remain quite negative. Fully 66% say news stories often are inaccurate, 77% think that news organizations tend to favor one side, and 80% say news organizations are often influenced by powerful people and organizations.

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The public is about evenly divided over whether news organizations are immoral (42%) or moral (38%), but the proportion saying the press is immoral also equals an all-time high.

Baltimore Sun to put up a pay wall next month.

New York Post names a new Washington Bureau Chief.


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