By CPB, 7-14-25
As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on the Rescissions Act of 2025 that would cancel $1.1 billion in already approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a new national survey finds that U.S. voters place more trust in public media than media overall and hold a more favorable opinion of public media compared with for profit media.
According to the poll, conducted online by Peak Insights from June 29 to July 1 among 1,000 likely voters, voters highly value public media’s core services and programming such as emergency alerts (82 percent) children’s educational programming (66 percent), local programming (66 percent), and national news reporting (60 percent).
The survey reveals voters more widely trust public media compared with media in general when it comes to reporting the news “fully, accurately, and fairly” – only 35 percent of voters trust media in general, but 53 percent of voters trust public media networks and local stations. » Read More