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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Old liberals the sane don’t.
It would be different if the HBM (Has Been Media) cared for the truth instead of their agenda.
Tagline says it with every post.
Half the staff of Associated Press(or staph)is now on suicide watch.
Journalism = Propaganda
Unfortunately this young woman has just been mis-educated by one of the sources of the problem - an American college school of journalism; because that is precisely where the bias in journalism begins.
The Boomers are the last generation that has any trust or confidence in the corporate media. Even Gen X doesn’t trust them. Millenials and Zoomers have no use for them at all. That’s why the corporate media has been dying for years.
Look at the average age for the viewing audiences of CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc etc
She should do like untold numbers of others are in fact doing.
Just find a story to work on and then publish your own video.
There are several such women reporting daily on the events at the Portland Federal building insurrection. Their work is picked up by aggregators and becomes part of the public record.
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