Poll: 64 Percent Say Media Did 'Fair or Poor' Job as Watchdog in Year

Tim Graham
February 10th, 2010 1:09 PM
Here’s a poll we somehow missed. The First Amendment Center (an offshoot of the Gannett media company) went to Gallup for a poll of more than 1,000 adults around the anniversary of the Obama inauguration, and the results were released a few weeks ago. (Here's a PDF.) They asked "How do you rate the job the news media has done as a watchdog of government in the first year of the Obama…