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Re:US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media by raxxorrax on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:16AM (#27617830)
If you aren't objective to the best possible degree, your readers don't trust you anymore. Newspapers are in economic peril, but the trust issue is something a lot of journalists brought on themselves.
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Re:US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media by merpnderp on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:31AM (#27618083)
Interesting point, but I saw a judge took that to the extreme with a libel suit against Rachael Maddow, by saying no one would ever think she was offering news, only her opinion, thus no one would ever believe her. But people often believe things they've been told, even when it comes from people who are clearly not objective on the matter, so perhaps the judge was wrong.
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Re:US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media by dexterdog on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:39AM (#27619179)
That ruling was used later to defend Tucker Carlson for basically the same thing. A good way to tell if a source is left or right leaning is to see which of those stories they reported on and how.
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Re:US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media by xadhominemx on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:40AM (#27618245)
That’s not true. Readers don’t trust you when you don’t tell them what they want to hear. They are extremely fragile.
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Re:US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media by Steltek on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:02PM (#27619541)
Fox News circa 2000's is the best example. A huge outlier for media bias at the time but Republicans tuned in because it reinforced and validated their beliefs.
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Re:US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media by raxxorrax on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:30PM (#27619951)
I don't know if that is true. We had a press telling people what they wanted to hear and trust is now extremely low.
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Re:US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media by xadhominemx on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:03PM (#27621556)
Fox News viewers trust Fox News a lot
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Re:US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media by dagw on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:45AM (#27618360)
If you aren't objective to the best possible degree, your readers don't trust you anymore.

That just isn't the case. People trust you if you re-enforce their biases. The news sources that are getting the most traction aren't the most objective ones.

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