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.
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