The war on the press

Forty percent of Americans believe the press has too much freedom, states the Minnesota Newspaper Association Bulletin.

Freedom of the press has taken a beating recently in public opinion. A 2004 poll conducted by the First Amendment Center and the American Journalism Review reveals:

Four in 10 Americans believe the press has too much freedom.

Sixty-one percent of Americans believe that “the falsifying, or making up, of stories in the American news media is a widespread problem.”

Just thirty-nine percent think news organizations try to report without bias.

Only fifteen percent of respondents mentioned freedom of the press when asked to name the freedoms protected by the First Amendment.

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