As election season ramps up, a new poll by the Associated Press shows that more than half of American adults are expressing extreme distrust in the media’s coverage of politics.

“The thing that’s most concerning is that they’re not sure they can actually trust the information,” Michael Bolden, CEO of The American Press Institute, said in an Associated Press article.

At TCU, several parents, potential students and professors said they distrust the news in some way shape or form.

“I guess there’s just all types of bias, I mean you don’t really know what you’re looking at or reading or watching,” incoming first-year Maddie Santos said.

The main problem people said they found with the news was the increasing personal biases and lack of objectivity shown across American media.

“I feel like it’s very slanted and it’s not objective anymore,” TCU mom Denè Godsey said. “I feel like the people that report the news just have an agenda.”

Godsey also said it is becoming increasingly difficult to find trustworthy news.

“It depends on what the media is [and] where it came from. I’m more hesitant to trust everything that’s there,” TCU mom Erica Lawless said.

However, Chief Inclusion Officer Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, Ph.D., said he is optimistic that the public will gain more trust in the media in the future. Benjamin-Alvarado has a Ph.D. in a political science.

“I’m hopeful that because of this inclination of young folks to want to be change makers, to want to be leaders, that I think we need to give them the right set of tools to really kind of act out on that,” Benjamin-Alvarado said.