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Posted on 11/30/2025 5:57:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — Cat Murphy, a college student, has wanted to be a journalist since she was 11. Many of her friends don’t understand why.
When they engage with the news — if they do — they hear a cacophony of voices. They don’t know who to believe. Reporters are biased. They make mistakes. Besides, why would you hitch your future to a dying industry?
“There is a lot of commentary — ‘Oh, good for you. Look what you’re walking into. You’re going to be screaming into the void. You’re going to be useless,’” said Murphy, a 21-year-old graduate student at the University of Maryland’s journalism school.
She is undeterred. And it’s also why she’s not surprised by the findings of a study this fall that documented negative attitudes toward the news media among 13- to 18-year-old Americans. The press rarely fares well in surveys of adults, but it’s sobering to see the same disdain among people whose opinions about the world are still forming.
Asked by the News Literacy Project for one word to describe today’s news media, 84% of teens responded with something negative — “biased,” “crazy,” “boring,” “fake, ”bad,” “depressing,” “confusing,” “scary.”
More than half of the teens surveyed believe journalists regularly engage in unethical behaviors like making up details or quotes in stories, paying sources, taking visual images out of context or doing favors for advertisers. Less than a third believe reporters correct their errors, confirm facts before reporting them, gather information from multiple sources or cover stories in the public interest — practices ingrained in the DNA of reputable journalists.
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Smart kids.
When the News Literacy Project asked, two-thirds of teens couldn’t think of anything when asked what movies or TV shows come to mind when they think about journalism. Those who had answers most frequently cited the “Spider-Man” franchise or the movie “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.” Neither portrayal was particularly flattering.
Old people think “60 Minutes” is the pinnacle of journalism.
The first movie that came to mind for me was “Absence of Malice”.
Hopefully the youngsters found out what AP stands for:
Agitation and Propaganda
No pic of Cat “Lady” Murphy in the article - wonder why...
And that’s encouraging.
It was rich reading this story from the AP, one of the worst offenders.
More than half of the teens surveyed believe journalists regularly engage in unethical behaviors like making up details or quotes in stories, paying sources, taking visual images out of context or doing favors for advertisers. Less than a third believe reporters correct their errors, confirm facts before reporting them, gather information from multiple sources or cover stories in the public interest — practices ingrained in the DNA of reputable journalists.
But it leaves the question of where to they get their information.
Joachim Maitre, the former dean of Boston University’s College of Communication, resigned after admitting to plagiarizing significant portions of a speech from film critic Michael Medved without proper attribution. He described his failure to credit Medved as an inexplicable oversight during a hectic commencement day.
United Press International
No, she wants to be on TV and have people pay attention to her like her mommy and daddy paid attention to the newscasters on TV.
If she wanted to be a journalist, she'd set up a podcast and just run with it.
Not this one. Not even when it first came out (old enough to remember). { snicker }
Actually, as a group, they are idiots. We have profoundly failed them re: education.
I think Eh? Pee!
Most of our time here is spent reading the media.
Yet how many here will read the headline and believe it, let alone the article?
What we say and what we do are disconnected.
IT is on the internet, it must be true.....................
Hmmmm. Must be the viewers' fault.
We keep hearing that about the hatred of the “media” and yet how do they think the left is getting away with their hatred. Because the “news media” haters live by and regurgitate everything they hear on the news.
My 24 year old and most of her friends HATE our media and know they lie with every broadcast. They’re not stupid
Legacy media is not “news reporting” but leftist propaganda.
Good for them, research your own information
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