WaEx: Confidence in the media has hit rock bottom, with many news consumers believing that reporters file their reports before knowing the facts and 60 percent are under the impression that sources pay for stories, according to a depressing new survey of American journalism.
The Columbia Journalism Review poll also confirmed the pending death of print newspapers and magazines and a remarkable shift to social and online media as sources of news.
The survey, done in partnership with Reuters/Ipsos, interviewed 4,214 adults and found that the media is last on a list of all of Washington’s institutions that the public has confidence in, even under Congress.
CJR did not write up a report or analysis beyond an introduction on the “trust gap” it found. They wrote, “For decades, we’ve known that Americans don’t trust the press. What we haven’t known is how people view the makings of journalism, from the use of fact checkers and anonymous sources to the question of whether money skews journalistic decision-making. This new national poll for CJR answers those questions, and points to how big the trust gap remains.”
Instead of words, it showed the grim news in graphics.
My trust in media is at an all time high. I trust them to repeat (verbatim) the democrats daily talking points and to carry their water, disparage the president at every opportunity, and ignore stories that illustrate how feckless the leftists actually are.
News is no longer reported, it is advocated.
The “Trust Me” part reminds me of an old jewish saying….
How much trust should I place in an information brokering industry, that hasn’t known this for years?
Gee I wonder why?
It’s 6:10, my televisions off, and I’m perusing my trusted sources for news. Should say something. Plus it saves my television from having things thrown at it.
It would be nice if the major news outlets would acknowledge their sins, issue a mea culpa and launch a renaissance of honesty and just report straight up news. It won’t happen but it would be nice.
There’s a reason I call them all “presstitutes”.
Yes… The networks.
However, I do like some i-net based…for instance. OANN
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtpYcK3nJk8
And she’s easy to look at, too.
(Liz Wheeler)
When people recognize liars they
stop listening and seek other sources. A large part of the Demunist lies machine has failed.
This is a good thing.
“Plus it saves my television from having things thrown at it.”
…that’s a GOOD thing, @ Different Tim, because a modern televisions can’t take a hit NEARLY as well as an old tube type,
…and isn’t nearly as exciting when you DO manage to break the screen, either…
The msm cannot be trusted at all
because it is OWNED by
George Soros
Just like the USA smellocrat party
Remember April 2008
When Gyorgy Schwantz put his money on
Barak Hussein Obama ?
And all of a sudden
” INEVITABLE ” Hillary Clinton
became an
” Also Ran ” ?
Even the power drunk craving Clintons
accepted it !
George Soros OWNS the
smellocrat party
What he says goes !
AOC better watch her big mouth
If she crosses Gyorgy Schwantz,
She may disappear.
And, of course, the smellocrats
will try to blame
President Trump or any
non-leftist extremist in general .
Rock Bottom trust NOT YET. Wait until the 2020 election cycle. it will drop lower then. That is a NO-BRAINER