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Re:Trust in newspapers and television news collapses to hist... by pacarvalho on Friday July 08, 2022 @08:53PM (#32030180)
Even though the graphs do show some correlation between politics and media trust, I believe there may be other factors at play here. For instance, the need to make headlines ever more clickbait may also be eroding trust. Since the body of the article and the headline often don't agree.
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Re:Trust in newspapers and television news collapses to hist... by samizdis on Friday July 08, 2022 @09:22PM (#32030317)
That doesn't really hold for TV news, though. And even though it is annoying in print when articles fail to stand up their headlines, it doesn't necessarily mean that readers dismiss such articles entirely. It's more that they get pissed at the headline writers. Cf any number of articles headlined as a cancer "breakthrough" or an asteroid "heading for Earth" etc.
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Re:Trust in newspapers and television news collapses to hist... by RajT88 on Friday July 08, 2022 @09:25PM (#32030344)
Getting pissed at headline writers and not trusting the media not to lie to you, I am not so sure are two separate things.
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