Posted on 06/27/2021 3:52:06 PM PDT by blam
For years, we have been discussing the decline of journalism values with the rise of open bias in the media. Now, a newly released report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford has found something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The United States ranked dead last in media trust among 49 countries with just 29% saying that they trusted the media.
The most tragic aspect is that it does not matter. The media has embraced the advocacy journalism and anyone questioning that trend risks instant cancellation.
The result is a type of state media where journalists are bound to the government by ideology rather than law.
The plunging level of trust reflects the loss of the premier news organizations to a type of woke journalism. We have have been discussing how writers, editors, commentators, and academics have embraced rising calls for censorship and speech controls, including President-elect Joe Biden and his key advisers.
Even journalists are leading attacks on free speech and the free press. This includes academics rejecting the very concept of objectivity in journalism in favor of open advocacy. Columbia Journalism Dean and New Yorker writer Steve Coll has denounced how the First Amendment right to freedom of speech was being “weaponized” to protect disinformation.
Likewise, the University of North Carolina recently offered an academic chair in Journalism to New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones. While Hannah-Jones was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her writing on The 1619 Project, she has been criticized for her role in purging dissenting views from the New York Times pages and embracing absurd anti-police conspiracy theories. Even waiting for the facts is viewed as unethical today by journalism professors who demand that reporters make political or social declarations through their coverage.
One of the lowest moments came with the New York Times’ mea culpa for publishing an opinion column by a conservative senator. The New York Times was denounced by many of us for its cringing apology after publishing a column by Sen. Tom Cotton (R, Ark.). and promising not to publish future such columns. It will not publish a column from a Republican senator on protests in the United States but it will publish columns from one of the Chinese leaders crushing protests for freedom in Hong Kong.
Cotton was arguing that the use of national guard troops may be necessary to quell violent riots, noting the historical use of this option in past protests. This option was used most recently after the Capitol riot.
Almost on the one-year anniversary of its condemning its own publication of Cotton (and forcing out its own editor), the New York Times published an academic columnist who previously defended the killing of conservative protesters.
Over at the Washington Post this week, the newspaper promoted a columnist,Karen Attiah, who last summer caused an outrage after she tweeted “White women are lucky that we are just calling them Karens. And not calling for revenge.”
Given this trend, it is little surprise that viewers no longer trust the media.
They have watched as stories ranging from Hunter Biden to the origins of the pandemic have been aggressively censored by Big Tech and blacked out by journalists.
The problem is that this echo journalism works for some in the media even if it ultimately destroys the profession as a whole.
It is a journalistic version of Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons where everyone acts for their immediate benefit as “the inherent logic of the commons remorselessly generates tragedy.”
I’m not even sure if I should trust my own comments.
Without a fair and free press, this country will not survive.
The leftist news networks are all part of a @%#$& communist insurrection.
They are saying that our media outlets, talking heads, all the alphabet channels and lefty media industy tycoons who put their thumbs on the truth scales daily are to be trusted less for accurate unbiased information than say the state run news in Sudan, and given what is known, that is probably dead accurate.
“I don’t even know if I should trust this article.”
LOL!
The weather predicting sucks, too! I was promised 4” of RAIN last week! I got NOTHING! Zip. Zero. Nada!
...and the 29% are all knuckle dragging liberals.
The Ministry of Propaganda only has themselves to blame that no one believes them anymore.
I’ve retroactively come to distrust every word from the mainstream media going back to the days of the Vietnam War.
Journalists used to just cover events; nowadays half the stories are about the news business itself. Before conservatives started to grow a couple, all the coverage was in sync; now there is open divergence, and the MSM didn’t take kindly to any competition. They didn’t just dig in their heels; they went on the warpath.
I distrusted Cronkite back in the day. I was right.
Well what did the ussa media urinalists
think would happen after years
of p!ssing on the world’s legs
while telling us it was rain ?
The whole world
is sick of their stank on our clothes.
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49 countries is only about a quarter of all the nations in the world. So maybe there are a few where trust in the media is even lower. Perhaps North Korea, China, Venezuela, or Cuba.
The whole idea of the 1st amendment's free press is that the press would protect this country from the ruling elite.
I noticed the press really start to radically change when CNN came to be.
First it was going after Clarence Thomas and not reporting that Hill kept following him as he changed jobs. Later was NOT going after Bill Clinton after all those women came forward and even worse going after the women!
Luckily about that time Rush came along and saved us.
The national guard was not needed to “quell” the NOT violent “riots” on January 6. They would have been useful before the Capitol was breached but the “rioters” had departed by the time the National Guard got there.
I do a daily walk and today during my walk I thought about Rush and how much I miss him. I can't even listen to anyone else.
God bless Rush, RIP.
Wow, the US wins! We’re the most distrustful nation of all!
Been listening to Bongino since his podcasts started but I just can’t seem to listen to him during Rush’s time spot.
Haven’t even tried Travis and Sexton yet.
Been listening to Bannon’s War Room but it’s a very different kind of program.
Rush was a blessing.
Rush really was about excellence in broadcasting.
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