{"id":52033,"date":"2025-12-04T03:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=52033"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:15:43","slug":"declining-confidence-in-religion-and-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/declining-confidence-in-religion-and-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Declining Confidence in Religion and Other Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m increasingly appreciating that one of the side-benefits of being a TS permablogger is that it provides a nice place to park my graphs and insights that don’t make it through the editors with my other work. On that note, my draft of a recent Deseret News article<\/a> of mine was built around this graph. I have no idea why they decided to cut it.<\/p>\n

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But seriously, I knew they\u2019d have to pare it down, but I thought the graphics guys would make the choice about which lines to keep or throw, but they ended up just throwing out the whole thing–it was probably way too cluttered to be salvageable. The topline reported in the article is:<\/span><\/p>\n

At that time, only about 15% of Americans had hardly any confidence in the press, with only 22% having that same low amount of confidence in television (about the same as religion, it is worth noting).<\/em><\/p>\n

Now? Their tumble has been much faster and harder than religion. While about one-third of Americans now have hardly any confidence in religion, about half of Americans have hardly any confidence in the press (55%) or television (48%).<\/em><\/p>\n

If you squint hard enough at the graph you\u2019ll see that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n