Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in the media -- such as newspapers, television and radio -- first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so again last year.For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. Another 33% of Americans express “not very much” confidence.
It's a mystery why this downward trend continues. I chalk it up to selective editing in the interest of "time constraints."
The numbers are disproportionately a you problem. The ratio of media distrust has been about 2-to-1 for Republicans vs independents, and more than 4-to-1 for Republicans vs Democrats.
ReplyDeleteConservatives are especially enamored of resentment, and conspiracy as they choose to define it. "Among Republicans who say their main political news source is Fox News, those who say the cable network is not mainstream are far more likely to have a great deal of trust in it than those who say it is mainstream (55% vs. 32%)."
Never see you applying the same self-validating schadenfreude to the downward reputation of the Supreme Court.
Should you trust people that wished to put people in prison for refusing the vaxx? Should you trust anyone that mysteriously can no longer define a woman? Trust is missing because these folks have been judged to be lacking in common sense knowledge correctly or are lying for their own benefit.
ReplyDelete"Vote for common sense knowledge, vote Republican in 2024"?
ReplyDeleteThe stolen election, eating the dogs, doctors killing newborn babies, the worst crime numbers ever, the worst economy ever, FEMA money being diverted to illegal immigrants, kids getting transgender sex change operations in schools, the January 6 riot was a mere trifle (and Antifa and Pelosi did it).
You should pray for a vaxx that cures brain worms.
Hey, I'm already voting for Trump. You don't have to convince me further.
DeleteIt'll be funny when we "disappear" your vote. Again.
DeleteCarl Sagan, writing in the 1990s:
ReplyDelete“If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”