Poll: Americans' confidence in newspapers continues to erode

Conservatives’ confidence in television news, at 18%, is tied for the lowest for the group on record and is down from 22% last year. Liberals’ and moderates’ confidence improved this year after tumbling in 2012. Now these groups express more confidence in television news than do conservatives; last year the groups had similar confidence. Last year’s survey was conducted amid a heated re-election campaign for President Obama, which may be one reason liberals’ and moderates’ confidence dropped at that time.