Talk:News media in the United States

Major problems
-- Beland 19:33, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Even after I fixed some, there are several POV claims, which I have tagged.
 * There are several instances of weasel words, which I have specifically tagged.
 * There are many unreferenced claims, which I have tagged.
 * The overall sense I got of the article was that it had been written by someone who agreed with critics who felt the American media are profit-hungry and generally of low quality. Several sections were specifically about bias, so I moved them to Media bias in the United States.
 * There are major omissions in the listing of news outlets, for example radio news, especially National Public Radio, which has the first and third highest-rated radio shows in the country, period, and which polls have indicated is the country's most trusted news source. Internet outlets are also completely missing.
 * The article asserts that PBS is a minor news organization, but there are no references to support this. I would recommend finding audience size numbers for each of the organizations listed, to establish in an objective manner which ones have the largest market share.
 * The section on agenda-setting is interesting, but pretty much every claim asserted here is controversial. This section needs to be reworded as a collection of claims sourced to third parties, not a series of assertions of fact.  It also needs to present both sides of each part of this controversy, rather than taking a firm stand as it currently does.

Pew Research results
There is a monumental error regarding the statements and reference (Pew Research) in the body of the article stating that the America public trusts the news media> I will insert the summary of the latest Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. "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.

The widely-shared belief that news stories are inaccurate cuts to the press’s core mission: Just 25% say that in general news organizations get the facts straight while 66% say stories are often inaccurate. As recently as four years ago, 39% said news organizations mostly get the facts straight and 53% said stories are often inaccurate."

Views of the News Media: 1985-2011 Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Information Sources, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, www.people-press.org Prof2long (talk) 06:37, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[[User: Miller}} 1:35, 22 April 2012

Rewriting page could be class project
Would it be possible to assign a revision of this page to a graduate journalism class researching public attitudes toward the press? If anyone could get in touch with a professor or student, please suggest doing so. (This probably gets read more than any of their articles!) There is lots of good information on U.S. news media, of course. I rewrote a couple of things, but I will return to this page when I can -- the "facts" about public media seem to flat-out wrong on many occasions. Papillonderecherche 06:03, 24 October 2007 (UTC)papillonderecherche

'Major' News organizations
I feel that the use of the word 'Major' without defining what constitutes a 'Major News Organization' is a little skewed from Wikipedia's intended NPOV. It doesn't specify whether or not these 'Major' news organizations are major because the people writing the article decided so, or perhaps the magazines in question reach a certain threshold market, or even if they own a specific percent of all news media organizations worldwide. In an effort to be more new-tral (ha) I think that there should probably be a discussion in this case as to whether any news organization on this list has been MISSED or added in error, especially considering some 'news' organizations like Buzzfeed or Google News are actually aggregators. 2601:204:C001:3320:5DA:B0F1:CFB:94D9 (talk) 03:44, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Re: ABC News | Television [citation needed]
Perhaps I’m missing something (I’m not a Wikipedia expert), but is a citation really needed to back up the claim that ABC News is on television? (See line 1 in the table of “Major News Organizations.) I can’t imagine anybody doesn’t know ABC News is a television news organization, and why does “ABC News | Television” need a citation and not the rest of the outlets listed? 174.215.190.31 (talk) 14:51, 16 November 2021 (UTC)