The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust

Re:The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust by bradreaves2 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:35PM (#43221527)

Certain right wing figures have spent decades coordinating an alternative media infrastructure whose only goal was to sow doubt about truths that were inconvenient to their political aims.

Any discussion of public media trust that doesn’t include this as a component of analysis is immediately suspect.

An analysis that claims that public mistrust in media is because the media did not create more space for right wing obfuscation and disinformation is at best misguided. In practice, it is more likely another element of the campaign that created the problem in the first place.

There are many valid criticisms of the modern press. “They didn’t conform to the right wing’s warped presentation of reality” is not one of them.

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Re:The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust by ItsTotallyOn on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:46PM (#43221626)

This comment's absolutely and completely misguided and nakedly partisan/tribal viewpoint almost perfectly describes the issue with the media: A complete and utter lack of understanding that perhaps some opposing viewpoints are also valid and worthy of discussion, which then leads to completely biased and untrustworthy activist reporting.

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