Survey: 93% of Evangelicals distrust Media

LadyEagle · Apr 29, 2003

Survey: 93% of evangelicals distrust media

Shows 'gulf of mutual suspicion' separating them from society
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Posted: April 29, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Evangelical Christians in the United States regard the national media with profound distrust, according to a recent informal survey.

About 93 percent of the 37,000 respondents to a "Spiritual State of the Nation Survey" do not trust the media, according to Coral Ridge Ministries in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The group said the findings are consistent with its past surveys and the recent admission of New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, who wrote "one of the deepest divides in America today is the gulf of mutual suspicion that separates evangelicals from secular society."

Evangelicals are a group with which the news media is "completely out of touch," said Kristof.

Secularists, he wrote, regard these devout Americans with uninterest or suspicion.

D. James Kennedy, president of Coral Ridge Ministries, said, "Kristof's candid column only echoes what many evangelicals, myself included, have long recognized."

"There is a cultural divide between pro-family Americans on one side and media and political elites on the other," Kennedy said. "Too often the two sides peer at each other across the chasm with misgivings and misunderstanding."
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Interesting. But I knew this already.

j_barner2000 · Apr 29, 2003

And I believe this issue will continue to be ignored unless the media or politicals want to use it to cast us in a negative manner.

bobfrgsn · Apr 29, 2003

And I would not trust a survey done by D. James Kennedy to worth the paper it is printed on .... he has an agenda ... I wonder where he got his demographic from ... just the crowd that would listen to him in most likely hood. Just my ..02 cents worlth.

Go for me Sheeagle!

LadyEagle · Apr 29, 2003

...he has an agenda
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And you don't?

Ben W · May 1, 2003

Im not surprised that Evangelicals distrust the media. Isnt it the job of the media to deliberatley inflame tensions between groups in society? I.E Build up a church discussion on something in the media, upset all the athiests, then switch sides and sledge into the Christians?

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