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Nolte: Victory! Trust in Mass Media Plummets to Another All-time Low
Breitbart ^

Posted on 10/03/2025 12:20:57 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

The American people have woken up to the dangerous and hateful fraud that is the legacy media. According to Gallup, which has measured trust in mass media for 50 years, that trust just hit another record low.

Only 28 percent trust the corporate media.

(snip)

Then there was 2004’s Rathergate—that glorious scandal that exposed CBS News, 60 Minutes, and Dan Rather as hoaxsters and fraudsters, as Democrat Party pimps willing to do anything to destroy a Republican president in the middle of a tight reelection campaign. Everyday people online quickly proved that the documents CBS produced to prove George W. Bush had been derelict in his military service were laughably fake.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bariweiss; cbs; media; msm; seebs; trust

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The latter part I give credit to FR's own Buckhead.
1 posted on 10/03/2025 12:20:57 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

He was involved as a defense attorney for one of the lesser figures in one of Fani Willis’ BS prosecutions of Trump.


2 posted on 10/03/2025 12:45:18 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Tench_Coxe

And yet the media keeps spewing poison and lies.

It’s amazingly self destructive and no way to run a business.

But then, leftists, by definition haven’t a clue how to run a business.


3 posted on 10/03/2025 1:01:08 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Tench_Coxe

The article gives major credit where credit is due: To the late, great, Rush Limbaugh. He started the slide of the Corporate Media into irrelevancy. Congrats, Rush.


4 posted on 10/03/2025 1:07:35 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

“The politicians all make speeches, while the newsmen all take notes. Then they exaggerate the issues and shove it down our throats”

~Larry Norman, The Great American Novel, 1973


5 posted on 10/03/2025 1:27:06 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( I used to care, but things have changed ~ Bob Dylan)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I have long noticed that if there is a poll and there is a WTF answer like poll of white people
Should all white people be killed?
There will be 25-35% that will answer yes

The fact that this poll still shows 28% still believe the legacy media affirms my observation 🤢


7 posted on 10/03/2025 3:56:14 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: Tench_Coxe

Legacy media is not just the broadcast media. It includes print media like the New York “homosexual” Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, etc.

They did it to themselves. It is now nearly 100% propaganda, 24 hours, 7 days a week.

CNN, MSDNC, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR have all cratered with ratings. The newspapers are only a slim 8 pages from it’s Hay Day of 40 pages. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.


8 posted on 10/03/2025 4:09:15 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: blitz128

There are easily 28% of the population who ingest the media drivel only for the sake of bias confirmation. This is not about delivering news, or information, at all. The MSM function is to feed the dwindling population of liberals. Think grey ponytails.


9 posted on 10/03/2025 4:27:16 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Agreed, what is amazing is that these organizations still exist financially.

They sure aren’t getting that money from ad revenue🤔


10 posted on 10/03/2025 4:31:21 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: Tench_Coxe

The ignorant only trust the yellowstream “media” when they are trashing President Trump.(Which is 99% of the time.)


11 posted on 10/03/2025 5:10:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Shumer Shutdown. The first step of Sandy Cortez's grab of Chunky Shoomer's job. LOL!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

“Only 28 percent trust the corporate media.”

That is too high a number. That is a lock for Democrats at the next election. They just have to add a few more pieces to get over 50%.


12 posted on 10/03/2025 5:11:05 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Great article with great links. Perhaps my prior post, a knee-jerk reaction, was too pessimistic.

Still, I know people of various ages who subscribe to the New York Times and watch the nightly news uncritically. If they are representative of one in four Americans, they sure don’t know it. It may be slowly dawning on them that they are in the minority.


13 posted on 10/03/2025 5:27:57 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: Tench_Coxe
From the article:

Only 27 percent of Independents trust the media. That’s who the media most want to manipulate.

If that 27% of indies can still be swayed by the leftwing propaganda spewed by the MSM, the Democrats will continue to win close elections.
14 posted on 10/03/2025 6:06:33 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

15 posted on 10/03/2025 10:05:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Tench_Coxe; Buckhead
Then there was 2004’s Rathergate—that glorious scandal that exposed CBS News, 60 Minutes, and Dan Rather as hoaxsters and fraudsters, as Democrat Party pimps willing to do anything to destroy a Republican president in the middle of a tight reelection campaign. Everyday people online quickly proved that the documents CBS produced to prove George W. Bush had been derelict in his military service were laughably fake.

Buckhead ping

16 posted on 10/03/2025 11:03:29 AM PDT by GOPJ (Charlie Kirk worried democrats would murder his children-no face pictures <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: blitz128

LOL - good one.


17 posted on 10/03/2025 11:04:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (Charlie Kirk worried democrats would murder his children-no face pictures <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: Tench_Coxe
The article accurately details the corrosive effect that the Internet and citizen journalism had on the absolute lock on information control possessed at one time by a very few - all broadcast journalism in the hands of the editorial boards at ABC, NBC, and CBS, most dead tree publications at the mercy of the AP, NYT and the Washington Post for national news feeds. That was the absolute power that Lord Acton stated would corrupt absolutely, and so it did. In retrospect the degree of that cultural domination is shocking.

In a relatively short time we witnessed the emphasis being shifted to formal censorship from the same mouths that used to bleat about freedom of the press (and many of whom still do). That's a sign of weakness and a tacit admission that the stranglehold has been broken. What is happening at present in the UK is nothing less than a vast social experiment to see if the state can institute such censorship and what happens when it tries. That experiment appears to have gone sour - people are being incarcerated before the ability to object has been sufficiently stifled, and the uniparty there is being seriously challenged before the project is complete. To call that situation unstable is an understatement.

18 posted on 10/03/2025 11:34:18 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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