What's funny is that Patrick actually gets it right, here.
Posted on 04/23/2021 4:23:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Media trust is at an all-time low, a majority of Americans believing that, “Most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public.” An Axios commissioned survey found that only 46 percent of Americans trusted traditional media, the lowest number ever recorded in the 20 years of this survey.
Gallup found similar distrust of the media, with only 40 percent of Americans having “a great deal” or even “a fair amount” of confidence that the media reports the news “fully accurately, and fairly”. The low point was a 32 percent level of trust in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected president and he correctly labeled the media as “fake news”. 20 years ago, media trust was much higher, in the mid 50 percent range, despite Dan Rather at that time, a major network news anchor, lying about George W Bush’s National Guard service.
In other words, the media is lying to us and we are catching on to the lies.
Watch any cable news show or read any of America’s prominent “newspapers of record” today and see that they are peddling fiction, stories based on anonymous phantom sources or else totally fabricated, designed to influence elections and public policy in a manner that Joseph Goebbels would envy. Let’s look at a recent example.
U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died in early January after the Washington, D.C. Capitol rally. Despite not knowing anything, the media was quite certain as to the cause of death.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
they alter vids, pics, and stories, WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY.
why doesnt EVERYONE yell “FIRE” suddenly??
because, except for the MSM=criminals, it is wrong
and possibly ILLEGAL.
46% of Americans trust media still? I don’t believe it is that high, but if it is, what a sad commentary of the intelligence of citizens and/or inhabitants within the U.S.
Why not pass a federal law that if a major news source intentionally misleads their audience they will be fined $25,000 or something. Repeat offences are doubled and so forth.
After about 2 days CNN will be paying several million a day and learn their lesson. They were once a great source of the news. Perhaps it might even help them regain viewers again.
What's funny is that Patrick actually gets it right, here.
((( the media’s ))) pants have been on fire, every day, for the last SEVERAL decades!!!!
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