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UNRELIABLE SOURCES: Poll Reveals How Out of Touch Journalists Really Are
freebeacon ^ | June 14, 2022 | Andrew Stiles

Posted on 06/16/2022 4:47:02 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

No one loves the media as much as the media love themselves

Professional journalists are notorious for their preternatural levels of self-regard. They are, for example, supremely confident in their ability to accurately report on the most important stories of the day. Members of the public are far more skeptical, according to the results of a recently published Pew survey.

Roughly two-thirds of journalists said news organizations do a good job of "covering the most important stories of the day" and "reporting the news accurately," the survey found. Normal, well-adjusted Americans disagreed. Just 41 percent of non-media respondents said professional journalists do a good job of covering the most important stories. Just 35 percent said journalists do a good job of reporting the news accurately.

Asked whether professional journalists do a good job "serving as a watchdog over elected leaders," a majority of journalists (52 percent) said yes, compared with just 29 percent of the general public. Additionally, journalists gave themselves fairly good ratings when it comes to "giving voice to the underrepresented" (46 percent) and "managing or correcting misinformation" (43 percent). Just one in four Americans agreed.

Not surprisingly, journalists were far more likely to describe themselves as "extremely or very connected with their audiences" than the actual members of those audiences. Nearly half of journalists (46 percent) said they felt connected to their readers and viewers. Just 26 percent of readers and viewers said they felt a connection to the media outlets where they get their news.

CNN's Brian Stelter, a journalist who covers the media, has expressed dismay over the results of similar surveys that reveal widespread public distrust of the journalism industry. He routinely defends his network's coverage of the "most important stories of the day," which during the Trump administration included segments on Donald Trump's Diet Coke consumption as well as an extensive analysis of the then-president's spelling errors on social media. CNN helped bolster the reputations of convicted felon Michael Avenatti as well as disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.), whose downfall ultimately led to the ousting of former CNN president Jeff Zucker and former CNN host Chris Cuomo.

Days after his segment bemoaning the lack of public trust in the media, Stelter downed champagne and caviar at a "splashy" HBO premiere in New York City. "Everyone will have different moments that feel like life is returning to a pre-COVID normal, and this night was one of those moments for me," the relatable journalist wrote.

Stelter may be on the chopping block for being a partisan hack, but he is hardly the only prominent figure at CNN who is unable or unwilling to accept that most Americans don't love journalists as much as journalists love themselves. Earlier this year, the network persisted in launching CNN+ to great fanfare. Alas, the premier streaming service was scrapped three weeks later due to a lack of interest.

In addition to the aforementioned failures, CNN is perhaps best known for refusing to fire Jeffrey Toobin, the senior legal analyst who was caught masturbating on a Zoom call with colleagues. "I didn't think other people could see," he explained upon his return to the network last year. Toobin continues to appear on CNN to analyze legal topics such as the Supreme Court's impending ruling that could overturn the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade. He has expressed concern, for example, that the High Court could take away his ability to bribe his much younger mistress to terminate her pregnancy.

Maybe—just maybe—the American people have good reason to think professional journalists are full of crap.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: iylm; media
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1 posted on 06/16/2022 4:47:02 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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2 posted on 06/16/2022 4:48:26 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

When I got to:

‘CNN’s Brian Stelter, a journalist who covers the media’

I threw up a little bit in the back of my mouth ...


3 posted on 06/16/2022 4:48:48 AM PDT by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
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The “undercovered” are those who are either ignored or viciously attacked by the mass media.

We know who we are.


4 posted on 06/16/2022 4:49:11 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: MarvinStinson
Look at the disconnect between what voters are actually concerned with and what voters perceive the media to be concerned with:


5 posted on 06/16/2022 4:52:53 AM PDT by markomalley (Directive 10-289 is in force in the US -- already gone Galt TYVM)
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To: MarvinStinson
I recall quite a while ago...twenty plus years ago...seeing the results of conversations that someone had with students of the Columbia School of Journalism.That school is universally considered to be the Harvard...the MIT...the Oxford of journalism schools.

The students were asked one question: "Why did you choose a career in journalism?" A majority of them answered "because I want to change the world".

Curiously, that is the same answer that Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers would have given if you asked them why they choose *their* careers.

6 posted on 06/16/2022 5:00:05 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: markomalley

GREAT POST.


7 posted on 06/16/2022 5:00:25 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson
Every morning, I check Wikipedia’s Recent Deaths. Just because.
The take away being, I cannot imagine anything worse in an obituary than being labeled, “Journalist” or “Politician”.
8 posted on 06/16/2022 5:02:45 AM PDT by Tupelo (Don't underestimate The Republican Party's ability to f*ck things up)
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The Fourth Estate has become a fifth column.


9 posted on 06/16/2022 5:07:46 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: MarvinStinson

“Just 41 percent of non-media respondents said professional journalists do a good job of covering the most important stories. Just 35 percent said journalists do a good job of reporting the news accurately.”

And if they polled Republicans the poll number would be zero. If Democrats did not exist, today’s journalists would not exist. We would have a different kind of journalist, one that reports the facts rather than spin narratives filled with value judgements. Journalists are not capable of analysis.


10 posted on 06/16/2022 5:28:01 AM PDT by chuckee
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I don’t understand the content of Media Issue #6.


11 posted on 06/16/2022 5:29:05 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MarvinStinson

It’s also laziness. Information is initially dug up on a national event. It’s repeated and massaged day after day over all the local stations and the national news.


12 posted on 06/16/2022 5:35:09 AM PDT by cymbeline
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Journalists are Paid Propaganda Agents.

The “Press” have become the Press-titutes.

They do it for the money.


13 posted on 06/16/2022 5:35:31 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: markomalley

That really demonstrates the disconnect.


14 posted on 06/16/2022 5:36:23 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I find it is not just the news people, it is the whole media establishment centered in the big cities.
They have very little in common with people in the country and/or suburbs.

For example, I was listening to WEEI Boston drive time radio show yesterday morning. The young newlywed woman was saying what a pain owning a car was. That the CHECK ENGINE light came on. She was wondering where to get the “fluid” to go in the car.

She literally had no idea it was called OIL and where one went to purchase oil to put in your car. She took it to an auto parts retailer. They checked the oil level and the oil was so low it did not register on the dip stick.

These are the kind of people that work at CNN, MSNBC, and your local big city TV and radio stations. Most of them live in apartments and have a driver who picks them up to take them to work. The rest take the train or subway system.


15 posted on 06/16/2022 5:39:00 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Gay State Conservative
"Why did you choose a career in journalism?" A majority of them answered "because I want to change the world".

This is the by-product of making celebrities of people like Woodward and Bernstein. The media is chock full of self-important people.

16 posted on 06/16/2022 5:40:37 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: MarvinStinson

Just look at CBS soy boy toni dikoupil and his Marxist wife katy Tur at MSNBC and you don’t need any more evidence of how the so called media is filled with corrupt leftist activists, NOT journalists.


17 posted on 06/16/2022 5:41:08 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MarvinStinson

Report the actual news ..not what you wish the news to be..?


18 posted on 06/16/2022 5:44:51 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Texas Fossil

Arm of the leftard/globalist deep state/swamp monster.


19 posted on 06/16/2022 5:47:34 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Fish Speaker

Trump was correct. They are the enemy of the people. You see what happened to Joseph Goebbels, who after all, was just a member of the media. Same thing here.


20 posted on 06/16/2022 6:01:51 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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