Trust in news media takes a hit during Trump presidency

Associated Press ^ | Jan 15, 2018 12:30 AM EST | Laurie Kellman and Jonathan Drew

[Afterguard]

Yeah that was disappointing. As I understand it, the OAN network “owner” (don’t know who it is) is the one that declared Moore the winner immediately after the polls closed in Alabama. He really did damage the network’s credibility. However, their daily coverage remains pretty much untainted by opinion. Facts seem pretty boring, in fact.

[CrazyIvan]

I went to a college that was big on journalism. I was not very concerned or astute politically at that time. I kept hearing these future media people talk about how they were going to change the world. Even then I realized that they were training to be propagandists, not reportsrs.

[super7man]

But a year into Donald Trump’s fact-bending,

No bias here. Move on....

[Bigg Red]

Well said.

[Bigg Red]

I not only do not trust the media, I consider them to be the worst enemy this country has ever faced.

...
+1

Thank you for your service.

[Sirius Lee]

The libs in my family listen to NPR and read the NYTs. I told them that Uranium One was the real russian collusion and they pooh poohed it, even as they salivated at the impending Trump impeachment. Their news sources aren't reporting the failure of Mueller's investigation and coincidentally, are not reporting anything about the Uranium One indictments.

When I informed them of the latter, they simply did not believe it. I told them to Google, or Bing, "Uranium One" "Indictment" and see what turns up. They wouldn't. They would only sneer that it must be "FOX news" and therefore non-factual.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

You can't lead liberals to facts, let alone make them think.

[jjotto]

Have them check out this story in the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html

[oldvirginian]

Over the decades I have watched the local media take a left turn.

The Lynchburg News and Advance newspaper serves the city of Lynchburg, Appomattox, Amherst, Campbell and Bedford counties.
Up until the late 1970’s it was owned by the Glass family and was reliably conservative.

In 1979 it was sold to the Worrell Group but was still softly conservative.
It was then sold to Gannett and moved to the center.
Now owned by Berkshire Hathaway is has completed its leftward turn. So much so that Maureen Dowd is a featured columnist.

Lynchburg has a population of 80,000 +/- as of 2016.the surrounding counties have boomed, population wise, since the 1980’s.
The News-Advance has a circulation of only 35,000 daily.

The Roanoke Times, also owned by Berkshire Hathaway, serves all of southwest Virginia and has a comparable circulation.
It is also reliably “progressive”.

I realise that cable and satellite were the first to bite off chunks of subscribers and the web has bitten off even more.
Still, the circulation numbers have fallen dramatically as the papers have moved left.

The local television stations have also moved leftward and are usually watched only for the local weather.

[Lionheartusa1]

Bingo ,,,,, we have a WINNER !!!