Rasmussen survey finds only 42% of Americans rate the media’s coverage of Covid-19 excellent or good.
QUICK FACTS:
- Rasmussen Reports used a national telephone and online survey to find that “just 14% of American Adults rate media coverage of the ongoing coronavirus crisis excellent.”
- 28% rate the media’s COVID coverage as “good.”
- The number who say the media is doing a poor job remained the same at 29%.
- Rasmussen also found many Americans “have concerns about the accuracy of reporting on vaccine safety.”
- “The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence,” according to Rasmussen.
- The survey questioned 1,000 U.S. American adults.
- It was conducted July 21-22, 2021.
- To see survey question wording here.
BACKGROUND:
- Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, notes Rasmussen.
