Culture Media trust hits new low - So they want "trusted institutions" to "visibly embrace" the news media

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Media trust hits new low​

https://www.axios.com/media-trust-crisis-2bf0ec1c-00c0-4901-9069-e26b21c283a9.html (https://archive.vn/nf1VQ)
Trust in traditional media has declined to an all-time low, and many news professionals are determined to do something about it.

Why it matters: Faith in society's central institutions, especially in government and the media, is the glue that holds society together. That glue was visibly dissolving a decade ago, and has now, for many millions of Americans, disappeared entirely.

By the numbers: For the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in traditional media, according to data from Edelman's annual trust barometer shared exclusively with Axios. Trust in social media has hit an all-time low of 27%.

  • 56% of Americans agree with the statement that "Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations."
  • 58% think that "most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public."
  • When Edelman re-polled Americans after the election, the figures had deteriorated even further, with 57% of Democrats trusting the media and only 18% of Republicans.
The big picture: These numbers are echoed across the rest of the world: They're mostly not a function of Donald Trump's war on "fake news".

  • As vaccine rumor hunter Heidi Larson puts it, "we don’t have a misinformation problem, we have a trust problem.”
  • News organizations have historically relied mainly on advertising income, and as those dollars flow increasingly to Google and Facebook, that has created institutional weakness that shows up in trust data.
Reversing the decline is a monster task — and one that some journalists and news organizations have taken upon themselves. They're going to need help — perhaps from America's CEOs.

The catch: Mistrust of media is now a central part of many Americans' personal identity — an article of faith that they weren't argued into and can't be argued out of.

What they're saying:

  • Former Financial Times editor Lionel Barber talks of factual reporting as a means of "regaining the trust of the reading public".
  • Axios has a stated mission to "help restore trust in fact-based news".
  • Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan writes that "our goal should go beyond merely putting truthful information in front of the public. We should also do our best to make sure it’s widely accepted."
How it works: Media outlets can continue to report reliable facts, but that won't turn the trend around on its own. What's needed is for trusted institutions to visibly embrace the news media.

  • CEOs (a/k/a the fourth branch of government) are at or near the top of Edelman's list of trusted institutions.
  • By the numbers: 61% of Trump voters say that they trust their employer's CEO. That compares to just 28% who trust government leaders, and a mere 21% who trust journalists.
The bottom line: CEOs have long put themselves forward as the people able to upgrade America's physical infrastructure. Now it's time for them to use the trust they've built up to help rebuild our civic infrastructure.
 
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"When Edelman re-polled Americans after the election, the figures had deteriorated even further, with 57% of Democrats trusting the media and only 18% of Republicans."

What a shocker. Bunch of retards.
 
Oy vey this is the worst shoa since the lolocaust killed my grandfather Ruben Shekelsteinmanbergerstein.
 
>Don't doubt, just believe
Oh fuck off. There is no reason to have trust if media outlets of every variety spew a bunch of bullshit with clickbait headlines for clicks. Your delusion that somehow this will effect society as a whole negatively is laughable: now more than ever we need to question these dumbasses that think themselves our shepherds.

lol, like corporations getting into the mix would somehow fix things and not fuck things up even more.
 
Perhaps the reason more people trust the CEOs of businesses they work for is because they typically don't hear them talk about politics? What makes the author, Mr. Salmon think that kind of trust extends this far? His conclusion seems like a stretch at best.
 
Journalists: "Why don't people trust us? They're probably just dumb."

Also Journalists: "Women can have penises, the entire East coast will be under water by 2010, and the BLM protests are peaceful. Also, pay no attention to prominent Democrats ignoring their own rules about masks."
 
No, let’s not address the problems that have led people to mistrust the media: slanted reporting, lies by omission, burying the lede, downplaying corrections or retractions, focusing on irrelevant distractions instead of meaningful stories, not holding reporters accountable apart from Jayson Blair level of fuckups, etc. etc. Just trick the people into trusting the media by getting institutions they do trust to endorse them.

For some reason I am now pondering how much weight a lamppost can bear. In Minecraft.
 
God of Nothing dijo:
>Don't doubt, just believe
Oh fuck off. There is no reason to have trust if media outlets of every variety spew a bunch of bullshit with clickbait headlines for clicks. Your delusion that somehow this will effect society as a whole negatively is laughable: now more than ever we need to question these dumbasses that think themselves our shepherds.

lol, like corporations getting into the mix would somehow fix things and not fuck things up even more.
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I get more reliable news from random Twitter people who link their sources than any mainstream outlet.

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Spasticus Autisticus dijo:
No, let’s not address the problems that have led people to mistrust the media: slanted reporting, lies by omission, burying the lede, downplaying corrections or retractions, focusing on irrelevant distractions instead of meaningful stories, not holding reporters accountable apart from Jayson Blair level of fuckups, etc. etc. Just trick the people into trusting the media by getting institutions they do trust to endorse them.
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Yup. The cure is simple STOP FUCKING LYING. We can easily look up the facts from primary sources ourselves now and see where they slant things. You are a fool if you take them at their word. But they keep pretending that we can't see this when they write these "why is everyone so distrustful of the media?" thinkpieces. They know why and this is just yet another elaborate show put on for their ever diminishing audience who still puts faith in them.
 
greengrilledcheese dijo:
The catch: Mistrust of media is now a central part of many Americans' personal identity — an article of faith that they weren't argued into and can't be argued out of.
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Wrong. People don't trust the media because the media has been caught either outright lying, or more often, suppressing facts inconvenient to the preferred company narrative. Then you tack on that Americans have a long and proud tradition of (correctly) not trusting their government, and that the media, especially when their political party is in power, will parrot whatever line their government 'sources' feed them and, once again for some strange Americans are disinclined to trust the media.

Truly a mystery.

Also, it's passing strange that the media will champion the cancelling of various men for non-conformity to the shifting morals of 'Current Year +6' but a proven genocide-denying Communist stooge like Walter Duranty still has his Pulitzer.
 
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