In polls previously reported by Anthony Gucciardi on Storyleak, it was found that the mainstream media has virtually lost all trust from the American people.
It's no coincidence that The Guardian has seen such explosive growth over the past year. It was Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald who broke the story about the NSA documents Edward Snowden was leaking. The Guardian has been willing to print all the details of NSA surveillance and not bow to political pressure.
A TRADITION OF DISSENT
Even though it's new to Americans, The Guardian is hardly a new newspaper. It has been around in one form or another since 1821. The Guardian is the third most popular daily in Great Britain with a circulation of 197,000 paper copies and nine million online readers.
The interesting thing is that The Guardian is known as a fairly liberal newspaper in England, but it has a strong appeal to American conservatives and libertarians; probably because of its willingness to stand up for civil liberties and its opposition to surveillance.
Another reason for the paper's popularity and independence is that The Guardian is owned by the Scott Trust. The Trust is a charitable foundation that allows The Guardian to operate at a loss. In other words, The Guardian is not part of the corporate media, and its purpose is to report the news not to enhance a corporate bottom line.
Oddly enough, The Guardian has also become a major thorn in the side of President Obama. It has embarrassed him tremendously by exposing his administration's questionable activities. The paper was actually formed after authorities shut down another newspaper that supported radical reforms in 1821. The Guardian's online success shows how pathetic the American media has become. Hopefully, Jeff Bezos will be able to transform The Washington Post into something similar (but probably not).
..is somewhat questionable.
Try pointing out in online comments for example the fact that global mean temperatures have been falling for about a decade which has led to a standstill in global temperatures for about fifteen years according to the IPCC.
You will find that the truth is extremely unpopular and is not allowed by the moderators.
The Guardian is in fact a bastion of the liberal left in the UK and now across the cooling globe. Its audience is mainly lower middle class state employees especially teachers. It has done an excellent job on Syria and Snowden and fighting the psycopaths who are bring down the Western world in favour of a new Russo-Chinese financial axis rather than a western New World Order. The unintended consequence of decades of corruption and the sidelining of the Constitution of the USA.