Gallup began its survey on media trust in 1972, repeating it in 1974 and 1976. After a long period, the public opinion firm restarted the polls in 1997 and has asked Americans about their confidence level in the mass media - newspapers, TV, and radio - almost every year since then.

Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti and Sam Parker illustrates Gallup's latest poll results, conducted in September 2023, in the graphic below: