Confidence in Media, 2017

Art Swift reports at Gallup:

Despite an ongoing controversy over "fake news," more Americans this year (27%) say they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers than did so last year (20%). Although confidence in newspapers is up from last year's record low, it remains lower than it typically was in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Americans are no more confident in television news than in newspapers. As the line between news and opinion is often blurred on cable networks, 24% of U.S. adults say they possess confidence in television news. Still, this is up from the record low of 18% in 2014 and is the highest since 2011.
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Although digital news sites have exploded with traffic, Americans have even less confidence in news that appears on the internet (16%) than they do in newspapers or television news. Gallup has asked about this kind of news only two times before: In 2014, it found that 19% had a great deal of confidence, and in 1999, 21% expressed the same sentiment.