The mainstream media isn't trustworthy on its best day, and it would appear that the generation born and raised amid the most high-tech era of the information age is abandoning the old media in droves.
According to a new Gallup poll, there is a stark difference in trust for the media in age groups.
The older generation still trusts the mainstream media as a majority, but just barely, at 53 percent.
Trust in the mass media differs significantly by age, and in a way that runs counter to the groups' typical party leanings: Older Americans are more likely to trust the media than younger Americans are.
Younger adults have come of an age in an era marked by partisan media and fake news, while older Americans' trust may have been established long ago in an era of widely read daily newspapers and trusted television news anchors.
During the 2016 elections that bias became even more explicit, and the mainstream media found itself losing trust in the overall population with the exception of Democrats, who were all too happy to have their biases confirmed.
The mainstream media still hasn't caught up to this, and with the capability of the youth now being able to sift through the nonsense to reach the facts at the speed of thought, the mainstream media is quickly becoming outdated and inefficient.
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/12/19/mainstream-media-losing-trust-americas-youth-astounding-numbers/
According to a new Gallup poll, there is a stark difference in trust for the media in age groups.
The older generation still trusts the mainstream media as a majority, but just barely, at 53 percent.
Trust in the mass media differs significantly by age, and in a way that runs counter to the groups' typical party leanings: Older Americans are more likely to trust the media than younger Americans are.
Younger adults have come of an age in an era marked by partisan media and fake news, while older Americans' trust may have been established long ago in an era of widely read daily newspapers and trusted television news anchors.
During the 2016 elections that bias became even more explicit, and the mainstream media found itself losing trust in the overall population with the exception of Democrats, who were all too happy to have their biases confirmed.
The mainstream media still hasn't caught up to this, and with the capability of the youth now being able to sift through the nonsense to reach the facts at the speed of thought, the mainstream media is quickly becoming outdated and inefficient.
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/12/19/mainstream-media-losing-trust-americas-youth-astounding-numbers/
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