Media trust is at an all-time low, a majority of Americans believing that, "Most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public." An Axios commissioned survey found that only 46 percent of Americans trusted traditional media, the lowest number ever recorded in the 20 years of this survey.
Gallup found similar distrust of the media, with only 40 percent of Americans having "a great deal" or even "a fair amount" of confidence that the media reports the news "Fully accurately, and fairly".
The low point was a 32 percent level of trust in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected president and he correctly labeled the media as "Fake news".
20 years ago, media trust was much higher, in the mid 50 percent range, despite Dan Rather at that time, a major network news anchor, lying about George W Bush's National Guard service.
Questioning the media lies was considered a "Truther movement on the right." Any mea culpa now from the media? Was anyone fired or ostracized for getting the story so wrong? Was it media incompetence or deliberate? Or did they just want the story to be true, and that was enough for the fact checkers to sign off that it was "Verified news"?
An alternative headline could read, "Brave police officer stops stabbing of two black teenagers." But rest assured, the media will drive by to the next big lie.
The media doesn't care about Brian Sicknick or George Floyd.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/04/liar_liar_media_pants_on_fire.html
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