The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media
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Anyone who trusts the news media is too stupid to have a say in anything, including what they have for breakfast.
But how would they feel if they didnt have breakfast yesterday?
The hell are you on about? I had an egg for breakfast yesterday.
Can those sorts of people even perceive breakfast?
For those that didn't click the link, this is an Op-Ed in the Washington Post penned supposedly by Jeff Bezos himself.
He talks about the decline in trust from the public for the MSM in general.
He talks about the difference between a loss of trust in the veracity of a MSM news source vs the perception that a source is biased or untrustworthy.
He claims that this is somewhat the basis that the WaPo isn't doing political endorsements this year and probably shouldn't be in general for perceived bias.
He claims that his employees from his associated businesses like Amazon and Blue Origin meeting with government officials on a regular basis creates "complexities" when it comes to the neutrality of his flagship paper.
He also claims that he has never used his personal influence in his position as owner to lean on the editorial board to benefit himself and his businesses personally.
He shits on unverified sources and social media for being misinformation and untrustworthy.
In the end, beyond canceling this year's Presidential endorsement, he offers no actual solutions beyond "journo-ing harder" to win back trust.
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Step 1 to winning back trust is to admit that you've been lying all along in the first place.
There can be no absolution without that contrition.
“In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all.”
“The Washington Post and the New York Times win prizes, but increasingly we talk only to a certain elite. More and more, we talk to ourselves.”
Even this Bezos Op-Ed is dishonest:
Liberals still today have a lot of trust in the news media as a whole, almost unchanged for the last 30 years, and very high trust in WaPo, NYT, Atlantic, NPR, etc - which are all garbage.
He linked to the poll so he knows it's a left / right divide and not Americans as a whole.
What he should say is that having half the country with zero trust and the other half with a great deal of trust clearly shows actual bias and he's going to fix the actual bias. And ironically, WaPo coming out and endorsing Trump with a well-reasoned examination of why Trump is the right choice would do so much in fixing the perception. In an epic reversal they could justifiably trash the Democrats for not having a primary, facilitating cheating, spreading hoax after hoax, hateful Hitler rhetoric, and so on.
WaPo Trump endorsement saying "you're the bad guys now, and WaPo is not going to be the bad guy anymore". But he doesn't even have the balls to be honest about the problem much less do what it takes to correct it.
Unintentionally based? NPCs that trust the media aren't Americans.
Washington Post had one good year breaking the Watergate scandal. Like a drug addict, they've been chasing that dragon ever since, even going as far as manufacturing controversy so they can slay the
windmilldragon.I can't elaborate on the lore intelligently or even recall the source (Tucker Carlson?), but my understanding is that even the Watergate reporting was a glowie op.
Supposedly the guy lauded for breaking the story was a rookie journo with a background in naval intelligence IIRC.
Apparently people in the know opine that there's no way the reporter could've developed the story organically.
Wow, too this long for that realization eh? Real slow on the uptake there, liberal media.
I wonder why?