Media Trust Hits New Low Across the Political Spectrum
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A new report shows media trust has hit a new low across the political spectrum, sparking discussion on the causes and implications of this trend, including the role of polarization and media bias.
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Source? A cursory check suggests you're talking about the Podesta email leaks, but that was an internal campaign email for talking points to be used against their opponents, which probably every other political campaign does. Am I missing something?
>We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to [take] them seriously.
It's the "tell the press to take them seriously" that's the giveaway here.
If such an email was leaked then it should be easy to at least find a link to share for a claim like this.
Regardless, “the media” isn’t one big block of people who conspire together to say the same thing as instructed by “the elites”. This is conspiratorial thinking crossed with class warfare ideology.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clin...
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Tricky times.
It's in plain sight:
'''Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has announced that the newspaper's opinion section will focus on supporting “personal liberties and free markets", and pieces opposing those views will not be published.'''
It has been in steady decline since.
The only blame here is with the media itself. That's it. Dont look anywhere else.
Really? The divergence in 2016 suggests it was also caused by partisanship on the part of media consumers. While it might be tempting to blame republicans for the divergence, the fact that there was a sudden spike for democrats suggest it was purely partisanship, similar to how different parties' perception of the economy diverges depending on whether their party is in power or not.
https://d6c748xw2pzm8.cloudfront.net/prod/f95cdc90-9075-11ee...
I read this in the article, but 2016 means nothing to me. The problem clearly pre-existed 2016. Feel free to blame the customer, but that's not going to fix anything. The media have to fix itself.
Invented long after the problem started. Not even a factor.
Another option you might pick up is aggregated news, google news came out in 2002; but some existed before. RSS was invented by netscape in 1999.
This likely is the causal relationship. When people can see a news event and literally see the lies from the media for themselves. There's no going back.
Look, I'm old enough to remember the 1960s. Reporters then tried to be objective. They never succeeded perfectly, but they tried. The editor of the New York Times deliberately slanted editing a little right, because he knew his reporters slanted a little left. He literally had them put on his tombstone "He kept the paper straight".
Nobody aspires to that now. It's not just that we consume more. It's not just that economic pressure has made them have to pump out more stories with less resources. They're not trying for what they tried for before. They gave up on trying to be objective. Yeah, they can't do it perfectly. But the difference really matters.
And it will eventually matter to the media. If they aren't going to do what we need... then we don't need them any more.
You will see Fox News and Joe Rogan referring to mass media as the other, bad news outlets.
I think the most important thing we can say to ourselves when reading news is to say “Why am I being told this?”
The catch is that most people now think “mass media” or “mainstream media” refers to the news content that other people consume, but not their own sources.
This is why you can find Joe Rogan complaining about the mainstream media to great effect with his audience, who seemingly don’t realize that having a 9-figure Spotify deal and an audience with 50 million downloads per month makes him more mainstream that those journalists that Joe Rogan is always telling them not to trust.
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