The percentage of Americans who think news organizations are inaccurate, politically biased and often have vested interests has soared to a new high.

Nearly 63 per cent of the 1,506 people surveyed by the Pew Research Center said the news stories are often inaccurate. In 2007, 53 per cent people used to think like that. Seventy-four per cent of the respondents said that news stories tend to favor one side of an issue over another, as compared with 66 per cent in 2007.

74 per cent believed that the stories were often inclined towards controlling interests.

The percentage of Democrats who said the media was inaccurate jumped to 59 as compared with 43 in 2007.

78 per cent of Republicans said the press was politically biased as compared with 50 per cent of Democrats.

Most of the Republicans considered Fox News as positive, while Democrats took Fox News negatively.

Democrats rated MSNBC, CNN or network television news favorably, while Republicans rated them unfavorably.