Ironically, it’s definitely true of Fox that they do mislead, and do outright lie. As for everyone else, newspapers are closing all the time, and that’s really bad for both local news and democracy.
I’d have a hard time answering because Fox is part of the media and they absolutely want to misinform. So, taking that into account I wouldn’t be able to give a good answer.
Stop it already, you included, Chris. How can news consumers, i.e. prospective voters and other sentiment beings, learn to differentiate among various mediums when all anybody pushes is this blob called ``the media?’’ To indicate Breithbart is the same media as Reuters or the LA TImes or PBS is ridiculous.
Let’s start banning the term ``media’’ and discuss specific types. They’re newspapers or cable tv networks, not ``and.’’ Pollsters should ask whether you think cable tv news have the public’s best interests at heart? Do newspapers? Blows? If so, which ones?
I've felt the major news media has been misleading us from WAY before Trump came on the scene. I guess it's just taken about 20 years for everyone to catch up with that realization.
I am curious Chris if you would shed some light on this topic given your background with CNN. They have been a target by the right for some time - did you see or sense that CNN had an agenda or leaned one way or the other while you were there.
The “best thing” I see “must” occur, is for example the NYT to eliminate their opinion and editorial pages. I’ve been a subscriber for over 60 years. It’s a sad day that this paper is now cat letter biz liner. Take the monies wasted on all the columnists and so forth and hire hard news journalists. It is a starting point to regain some - if possible - credence of what should the paragon of news gathering in the US. Report the news, dig, investigate, and let the reader or viewer make their own conclusions.
People believe what they are told and half the country is told daily they can’t trust the media. I also wonder how much is skewed because one could be a progressive and answer these same questions with Fox News in mind and give similar results.
All of what you say is on target but only when the left understands how it undermines itself will true journalism re-emerge. Right now I don’t trust anybody’s business model , especially not the myopic left or right.
I’m surprised that you are surprised by this survey, Chris. I believe this sentiment has been building for several decades - seems to me it coincided with the proliferation of cable “news” channels who IMO are far more OP/ED than news. I consider myself a political independent and am constantly in search of “news” and not opinion. These days, I pretty much skip all the cable channels except BBC. I find I can get “just the news” from AP, Reuters, and WSJ (non editorial section).
"A society with a free and independent media is a much stronger society. The erosion of trust in the press — wherever its origins — poses an existential threat to democracy."
And what are its origins??? When did we get so blind to the fact that injecting $$$, or the pursuit of financial gain would have no effect on the media, its honesty, integrity & transparency.
Fox News is often held up as the standard bearer of all things bad but they are by no means an outlier in the National Media - CBS, for example, boasted about how broadcasting Trump 24/7 has been a financial boon to their bottomline. They are not alone, just brazen enough to admit it.
This toxic attitude is nothing short of a relationship between drug dealer & addict. It is a dangerous, insidious direction where the public will have great difficulty weaning itself off the media as it is starved of the truth it needs to believe in. How will they know what is history.
I study disasters. I know all about Fukushima and the BP gulf oil spill. and now I study Trump. Like the aforementioned groups, the top instigators will not pay. they never do.
Ironically, it’s definitely true of Fox that they do mislead, and do outright lie. As for everyone else, newspapers are closing all the time, and that’s really bad for both local news and democracy.
I’d have a hard time answering because Fox is part of the media and they absolutely want to misinform. So, taking that into account I wouldn’t be able to give a good answer.
Stop it already, you included, Chris. How can news consumers, i.e. prospective voters and other sentiment beings, learn to differentiate among various mediums when all anybody pushes is this blob called ``the media?’’ To indicate Breithbart is the same media as Reuters or the LA TImes or PBS is ridiculous.
Let’s start banning the term ``media’’ and discuss specific types. They’re newspapers or cable tv networks, not ``and.’’ Pollsters should ask whether you think cable tv news have the public’s best interests at heart? Do newspapers? Blows? If so, which ones?
It’s difficult when Fox says they are ‘media’ and then they turn people against the real media.
I've felt the major news media has been misleading us from WAY before Trump came on the scene. I guess it's just taken about 20 years for everyone to catch up with that realization.
I am curious Chris if you would shed some light on this topic given your background with CNN. They have been a target by the right for some time - did you see or sense that CNN had an agenda or leaned one way or the other while you were there.
The “best thing” I see “must” occur, is for example the NYT to eliminate their opinion and editorial pages. I’ve been a subscriber for over 60 years. It’s a sad day that this paper is now cat letter biz liner. Take the monies wasted on all the columnists and so forth and hire hard news journalists. It is a starting point to regain some - if possible - credence of what should the paragon of news gathering in the US. Report the news, dig, investigate, and let the reader or viewer make their own conclusions.
Amen to that
It's too simplistic to blame it all on Trump and Fox. The whole thing is a mess, which is why so many writers and readers have turned to Substack.
People believe what they are told and half the country is told daily they can’t trust the media. I also wonder how much is skewed because one could be a progressive and answer these same questions with Fox News in mind and give similar results.
All of what you say is on target but only when the left understands how it undermines itself will true journalism re-emerge. Right now I don’t trust anybody’s business model , especially not the myopic left or right.
I’m surprised that you are surprised by this survey, Chris. I believe this sentiment has been building for several decades - seems to me it coincided with the proliferation of cable “news” channels who IMO are far more OP/ED than news. I consider myself a political independent and am constantly in search of “news” and not opinion. These days, I pretty much skip all the cable channels except BBC. I find I can get “just the news” from AP, Reuters, and WSJ (non editorial section).
"A society with a free and independent media is a much stronger society. The erosion of trust in the press — wherever its origins — poses an existential threat to democracy."
And what are its origins??? When did we get so blind to the fact that injecting $$$, or the pursuit of financial gain would have no effect on the media, its honesty, integrity & transparency.
Fox News is often held up as the standard bearer of all things bad but they are by no means an outlier in the National Media - CBS, for example, boasted about how broadcasting Trump 24/7 has been a financial boon to their bottomline. They are not alone, just brazen enough to admit it.
This toxic attitude is nothing short of a relationship between drug dealer & addict. It is a dangerous, insidious direction where the public will have great difficulty weaning itself off the media as it is starved of the truth it needs to believe in. How will they know what is history.
The question becomes, "Who ya' gonna' call?"
With few exceptions, the number one job of a news organization is to sell advertising. Full Stop.
I study disasters. I know all about Fukushima and the BP gulf oil spill. and now I study Trump. Like the aforementioned groups, the top instigators will not pay. they never do.
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Off topic again. Who started the Ukrainian war? The US had a treaty -- " https://policymemos.hks.harvard.edu/files/policymemos/files/2-23-22_ukraine-the_budapest_memo.pdf?m=1645824948 " and when The Russians invaded the Crimean peninsula we did nothing,. We started this fire. We must put it out. Why does no major media outlet point this out? They gave up their Soviet Nukes as they knew we would protect them. We failed them.
Looks like FOX and maga repubs
have almost accomplished their goal:(