Why Doesn't Anyone Trust the Media?
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The article 'Why Doesn't Anyone Trust the Media?' explores the erosion of trust in media, with commenters discussing the challenges of objective reporting and the role of language in shaping beliefs.
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When someone tells you and shows you who they are, believe them.
Like what timeline are we talking about here, when is the golden age of media not lying, it’s certainly not the 60’s and the Vietnam war.(hahaha ironically this is exactly when trust in the media and institutions was the highest, early 70’s)
https://www.statista.com/chart/5883/trust-in-mass-media/
Is there a series of things that they’ve lied about that you can point to that doesn’t have a partisan skew?
The only thing top of mind is maybe not going deep enough on the reasons for entering the Iraq war.
Face it, journalism is finished, it's extinct.
No one trusts narratives in general now. They're illusions entirely. Retire them as communication.
I don’t know why this has changed recently, I’m guessing it’s just the fact that people have more choices, but I’d rather create my own “media organization” by picking and choosing from a variety of writers, than consume everything from say, the New York Times.
Even if I can blur my eyes and see that is objectively a good thing that the New York Times tried to appeal to a wider variety of groups, like, I’m not going to drive myself crazy reading through a bunch of ham fisted articles purely written in an attempt to seem non-partisan.
I want to read dynamic and diverse perspective on COVID vaccines, but informed ones, not an op-ed from RFK jr. on Ivermectin.
And notice the idea that sloganeering propaganda is used to describe this: "coming back stronger than ever".
As if religion, myth etc is a brand of detergent, or a sports franchise, or a fast food enterprise.
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/24/1226371734/religious-nones-ar...
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