Posted on 06/22/2022 7:16:52 PM PDT by Rummyfan
To say there’s a disconnect between many journalists and the public they serve is a gross understatement, according to a new in-depth survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.
Per Pew, 65 percent of the nearly 12,000 journalists surveyed say the media do a solid job of “covering the most important stories of the day” and reporting news accurately. But a solid majority of the American public at large has the opposite view, with just 35 percent feeling the same way. That’s a 30-point perception gap.
When asked if journalists perform well when “serving as a watchdog over elected leaders,” 52 percent of journalists agreed. But the number dropped precipitously again when the general public was asked, with less than 3 in 10 agreeing with the assessment.
When asked if journalists manage and correct misinformation consistently, 43 percent of those in the industry said yes, while just 25 percent of the general public agreed.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Besides being rather stupid and delusional, as Reagan said, ‘They know so many things that just aren’t so.’
Most of the so-called “news” media is run by pinkos.
That 35% of the American Public that feels the media does a good job are the people voting democrat.
True, but why such a disconnect? They walk on the same streets, breathe the same air…yet?
I trust foreign journalists more than I trust journalists here. There is a serious delusional affliction among American journalists, and that’s not just because they’re liberals, or stupid. They lost our trust, and should be ignored.
What?
At some point their advertisers have to pull the plug.
How many TV “viewers” and website “users” are real?
How much fraud is there in their reach?
At some point if there is fraud to be found management of publicly traded companies have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to advertise where eyes will see, not just where the “woke” management chooses to place ads.
Twitter is an excellent example of inflated numbers—numbers they are desperate to hide from Elon Musk because they are scared to death of due diligence.
Always remember what Ben Rhodes, Obama’s national security advisor, said about the WH a press corps. “They are a bunch of 27 year olds who don’t know anything, and will believe whatever you tell them.”
“In 2004, one reporter in eight lived in New York, Washington, or Los Angeles,” Schieffer notes in his must-read book “Overload: Finding the Truth in Today’s Deluge of News.” “That number is now down to one-in-five who live in those three places.”
That is for reporters in general - for those with national exposure the number is far higher.
In the 2020 election, just 9 percent of Manhattan voters voted for Donald Trump. In D.C., the Trump support was just 5.4 percent, underscoring that those who live in or near these cities exist in overwhelmingly liberal silos.
It's where the money and the power are. Which brings us to Lemon's hilarious statement:
“At CNN, we don’t do opinion, we put the story out there and we try to stay in the middle of the road,” he claimed on air recently. In a related story, 93 percent of CNN’s coverage of Trump’s first 100 days in office was negative, according to a Harvard study, and it somehow got worse from there.
Yeah, Donnyboy, straight down the middle. Of what?
Despite those descriptions, 77 percent of journalists surveyed say they would choose the same career all over again.
Of course they would. The concentration of news generation in those highly progressive, ultra-left arenas comes with a membership in the ruling class, complete with money - way over salary - power, and invitations to the best social occasions. It's called selling out.
The watch different programs, they read different print media, they listen to different radio, they go to different schools, they have different heroes.
Most importantly, they have different assumptions about the nature of reality.
It is not hard to understand.
Journalists? Haven’t seen one of them in decades, Do they mean Presstitutes?
IMHO The Hill is part of the disconnect.
Or at least comfortable.
So when thing go up in price, they don't care. It is not real to them. They don't worry about security, they have people for that. Their kids go to private schools and do not have to worry about being pushed around.
They are bubble people.
“Of course they would. The concentration of news generation in those highly progressive, ultra-left arenas comes with a membership in the ruling class, complete with money - way over salary - power, and invitations to the best social occasions. It’s called selling out.”
I live in a county in Oregon that last voted for a democrat for president in 1964.
Recently the local paper(Its run out of Portland) had a local journalist(Ryan Clarke) making up stories about racism.
Did the liar get fired......nope he got a promotion to write for The Oregonian, the largest newspaper in Oregon.
I don’t want a conservative media, I just want a neutral media that covers both parties, rural, suburban, and urban issues the same.
“I won’t hold my breath.”
Because most of them are fanatical (small c) communists.
Are you sure The Hill published this? Sounds like Russian disinformation. Get the Ministry of Truth police on this right away!
Not really.
I remember way back in 1992 when Bill Clinton cinched the Democratic nomination...I had the misfortune of staying in the same hotel as his "victory tour".
Eating breakfast I could not help but overhear the press pool at a nearby table bemoaning the rumor circulating that the campaign was not going to continue a road show but would settle at one city.
"Oh no, we'd have to start living like normal people"
Some things you just can't forget even after 30 years...
Many young people go into journalism because they want to change the world. They go to college where they are indoctrinated into all the politically correct nonsense. They then go to work with people just like themselves. The result is an isolated population that understands the world only from a certain viewpoint. Everyone they know thinks the same way. That's why we sound like aliens to them. They can't understand those who have different upbringings and experiences.
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