In December, the Media Research Center grabbed national headlines with our groundbreaking poll showing that fewer than a quarter of Americans could correctly identify the political views of the man who allegedly assassinated Charlie Kirk. The numbers among college students were even more alarming. Only 4% knew the shooter was a left-winger, and a full third believed someone from the right pulled the trigger. This, despite all the evidence pointing in the other direction.
This is the generation that gets its news directly from the built-in news aggregators on their phones. There is no switching to another channel. This is the information they are fed. And what they are given is elitist media. An MRC study found that of the 560 stories Apple News posted for its 130 million captive users in November, 559 came from the Left.
So how did we get here? How is the public so far off the mark on something so clear? How do so few realize that the most significant political assassination of this century was carried out against a figure of the right by a radical from the Left?
Another recent poll found that public trust in the media has collapsed to an all-time low. That is something we take pride in, because MRC helped make that collapse possible through decades of exposure and accountability. But so many Americans distrust elitist media and reject what they see that the left's new effort is to make sure they're not shown the truth in the first place.