*Ashantai Hathaway, Press TV Washington
In America there are several ways to get the news, including newspapers, TV, the Internet and magazines, the field is flooded but if the numbers are any true indication than American media has a long way to go to win the public approval.
According to a Gallup poll Americans are unhappy with the information being released from the media and Americans remain largely distrusting of the news media, with 55 percent saying they have little or no trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly, and 60 percent said they perceive a bias one way or the other.
But perhaps worst some Americans say in the media is the growing obsession in the U.S. for gossip and tabloid news where Americans have become more aware of what's going on with the latest reality television star rather than topics like government and foreign affairs that affect them.
In fact, some believe celebrities seem to be taken over the media and many Americans are more aware of what's going on in Hollywood than what's going on in Washington. According to the Houran Team, a group of University researcher a third of Americans is obsessed with celebrities.
The same report said that one in ten was obsessed to the point of having what's referred to as "celebrity worship syndrome.
Tarpley says the only thing that may change the draw to celebrity is the down economy which forces people who are living on fixed incomes to come back to reality.
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