At least from what I've seen, there's an absolutely massive number of people who will answer they have little or no confidence in the news if asked a direct question, but then they go and believe everything on the news anyway. Basically the Gell-Mann Amnesia.
its so odd isnt it. I can talk to leftists, normies, neo-libs, and neo-cons and predict with extremely high confidence, near 100%, their stances on news topics the media reports on. Its sad how predictable they are.
The fact that the news does not talk about extreme leftist topics like Antifa, certain anti-establishmentism, pro communism, definitely factors into play. The news knows how to cater to normies ± whatever, to think for them on those topics and knows which topics to exclude as leftist extremist.
Probably, it's like Congress. Everyone else's Congressman is a cheating thief, right? but I stump for mine. I don't trust the media, but I believe everything Stephen Colbert tells me.
Worth reading the article for the other interesting facts that stand out. The key one being that Democrats, despite also having all-time low confidence in TV news, have way higher confidence in it even than Independents do. It's a reflection of exactly how homogenised and pandering the media establishment is, and that most Americans of all stripes can see exactly who it panders to.
Another curiosity is that when Gallup started polling this, in 1992, confidence in TV news was way higher than newspapers. I assume it was because papers included tabloid rags, looney sources like the Fortean Times, and was seen as cheap and disposable. As time passed, aside from a blip in the 2000s (which might reflect the Murdoch empire cheerleading the Iraq war), papers overtook TV in trust - which coincides with the emergence of rolling news, increasingly melodramatic anchors and more and more activist talking heads pushing 'facts'.
Anyway, trust in both is now in the toilet where it belongs. Let's keep flushing until it goes around the bend.
This is a more accurate article to use because it represents America's view of several major institutions.
Ignore the "aggregates" because they're pretty shit to begin with - scroll down to Republicans vs. Independents vs. Democrats.
I find it funny that the Republicans are diametrically opposed when it comes to major institutions.
Police - high among Republicans, but went down as well (because of Republicans finally realizing the police are not your friend, and most likely to how badly police performed because of COVID lockdowns and their refusal to actually get criminals prosecuted)
Medical system - Democrats are TRUST THE SOYENCE, Republicans have remained skeptical the past two years as vaccines work less and less.
Church - Not sure why this went down among Republicans, but atheist Democrats always hated religion.
Organized labor - Self explanatory. Labor unions are corrupt.
Banks - Why did confidence go down with Republicans? Is it cuz of shit like blackrock?
Big tech - Why did this number go up?
Supreme Court - Gone up for Republicans. Democrats butthurt about Roe v Wade.
Presidency - 2% among Republicans... Democrats had an 18 point loss but 51% of those idiots STILL trust him! wtf
Newspapers - Democrats still believe the trash pushed out by NYT.
Criminal justice system - Republicans lost confidence because it's being abused by leftists to attack 1/6 honkers, and Democrats hate it because muh criminal black peypol.
Churches have been trending down among the right as more and more supposedly "Christian" denominations adopt leftist worldviews instead of anything that is actually in the Bible.
Many protestant groups have found themselves with women and troons as church leadership. Naturally, trust in such an institution would trend downwards. Even if professing of religious values does not. On top of that Catholicism is facing a possible schism thanks to the heretic Bergoglio.
The funniest part is that church doctrine didn't change a bit. The authoritative text on the matter was, and still is the Dignitas Personae. Which states unequivocally that such a treatment is morally impermissible.
Not that that heretic Bergoglio would know or care. But luckily for Catholics everywhere, unless said heretic is speaking Ex Cathedra, anything he says is just his opinion and can be discarded as such.
Banks - Why did confidence go down with Republicans? Is it cuz of shit like blackrock?
Probably didn't help that a bunch of banks rather visibly froze accounts and took money from people at the instruction of the Canadian government during the Convoy protests.
Is that a surprise? US media have spent decades spending their trust in order to advance their agenda. The fact that they've not achieved as much as they wanted is probably something they object to, but the principle of the thing is something they chose.
At least from what I've seen, there's an absolutely massive number of people who will answer they have little or no confidence in the news if asked a direct question, but then they go and believe everything on the news anyway. Basically the Gell-Mann Amnesia.
its so odd isnt it. I can talk to leftists, normies, neo-libs, and neo-cons and predict with extremely high confidence, near 100%, their stances on news topics the media reports on. Its sad how predictable they are.
The fact that the news does not talk about extreme leftist topics like Antifa, certain anti-establishmentism, pro communism, definitely factors into play. The news knows how to cater to normies ± whatever, to think for them on those topics and knows which topics to exclude as leftist extremist.
Probably, it's like Congress. Everyone else's Congressman is a cheating thief, right? but I stump for mine. I don't trust the media, but I believe everything Stephen Colbert tells me.
pretty much the libs, and only because the headlines already agreed with their politics
Still about 20% too high.
Precisely.
Prez is at 2% among conservatives lmao
Worth reading the article for the other interesting facts that stand out. The key one being that Democrats, despite also having all-time low confidence in TV news, have way higher confidence in it even than Independents do. It's a reflection of exactly how homogenised and pandering the media establishment is, and that most Americans of all stripes can see exactly who it panders to.
Another curiosity is that when Gallup started polling this, in 1992, confidence in TV news was way higher than newspapers. I assume it was because papers included tabloid rags, looney sources like the Fortean Times, and was seen as cheap and disposable. As time passed, aside from a blip in the 2000s (which might reflect the Murdoch empire cheerleading the Iraq war), papers overtook TV in trust - which coincides with the emergence of rolling news, increasingly melodramatic anchors and more and more activist talking heads pushing 'facts'.
Anyway, trust in both is now in the toilet where it belongs. Let's keep flushing until it goes around the bend.
https://archive.ph/BeLgp
This is a more accurate article to use because it represents America's view of several major institutions.
Ignore the "aggregates" because they're pretty shit to begin with - scroll down to Republicans vs. Independents vs. Democrats.
I find it funny that the Republicans are diametrically opposed when it comes to major institutions.
Police - high among Republicans, but went down as well (because of Republicans finally realizing the police are not your friend, and most likely to how badly police performed because of COVID lockdowns and their refusal to actually get criminals prosecuted)
Medical system - Democrats are TRUST THE SOYENCE, Republicans have remained skeptical the past two years as vaccines work less and less.
Church - Not sure why this went down among Republicans, but atheist Democrats always hated religion.
Organized labor - Self explanatory. Labor unions are corrupt.
Banks - Why did confidence go down with Republicans? Is it cuz of shit like blackrock?
Big tech - Why did this number go up?
Supreme Court - Gone up for Republicans. Democrats butthurt about Roe v Wade.
Presidency - 2% among Republicans... Democrats had an 18 point loss but 51% of those idiots STILL trust him! wtf
Newspapers - Democrats still believe the trash pushed out by NYT.
Criminal justice system - Republicans lost confidence because it's being abused by leftists to attack 1/6 honkers, and Democrats hate it because muh criminal black peypol.
Churches have been trending down among the right as more and more supposedly "Christian" denominations adopt leftist worldviews instead of anything that is actually in the Bible.
Many protestant groups have found themselves with women and troons as church leadership. Naturally, trust in such an institution would trend downwards. Even if professing of religious values does not. On top of that Catholicism is facing a possible schism thanks to the heretic Bergoglio.
All those pastors and the pope decreeing "getting vaccinated is a moral obligation" didn't really help either.
The funniest part is that church doctrine didn't change a bit. The authoritative text on the matter was, and still is the Dignitas Personae. Which states unequivocally that such a treatment is morally impermissible.
Not that that heretic Bergoglio would know or care. But luckily for Catholics everywhere, unless said heretic is speaking Ex Cathedra, anything he says is just his opinion and can be discarded as such.
I can think of at least one possible reason.
Probably didn't help that a bunch of banks rather visibly froze accounts and took money from people at the instruction of the Canadian government during the Convoy protests.
Maybe Musk's Twitter (non-)purchase.
Republicans have only 5% confidence in newspapers and 8% confidence in TV reporting.
Looks like people are getting sick of the obvious bullshit narratives being continually pushed by the MSM.
Only the NP(D)'s have some confidence left, but even that is falling (35% for Newspapers, 20% for TV).
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We know they are lying
they know they are lying
they know we know they are lying
we know they know we know they are lying
but they are still lying.
Is that a surprise? US media have spent decades spending their trust in order to advance their agenda. The fact that they've not achieved as much as they wanted is probably something they object to, but the principle of the thing is something they chose.
I expected it to end with and it's Putin's fault.
Climate Change could also take the blame.