Can You Trust The Press?|5 Minute Video
Is journalism trustworthy? Can our company believe what press reporters and journalists inform us? Judith Miller, Pulitzer Prize-winning former press reporter for the New York Times, describes why Americans’ trust in the news media has actually fallen, and why that matters.
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Script:
Liberal or conservative, male or female, young or old, Americans love to bash the news media. Once amongst the country’s most trusted institutions, the news media have fallen from grace.
According to Gallup, even as recently as 2000 a bulk of Americans relied on the press; by 2015 it had actually fallen to 40 percent; and lower than that, 36 percent, among those 18 to 49. It’s difficult to see how this decline will be reversed. The market has actually become politically polarized and, in the extremely competitive age of multiple 24-hour cable news channels and the Internet, it’s under severe monetary pressure. And this substances an even deeper issue– failing journalistic standards.
In the 1950s, the media universe consisted generally of a couple of nationwide television broadcast networks, and local Television and radio stations, many of which got much of their “news” from significant wire services and the nation’s large newspapers. Presented with the realities, it was up to readers to make their own judgments about news events.
That world no longer exists.
This lack of objectivity and the decline of standards is one factor, though not the only one, why newspapers and news publications are a decreasing market. According to Pew Research, print income from newspaper sales has declined from $47 billion in 2006 to $16 billion in 2014.
This absence of info from professional reporters has been filled by a new source– social networks and the blogosphere. When the Iraq war, which I covered for the New York Times, began in 2003, there were approximately one hundred thousand bloggers. Only a few years later, there were an approximated twenty-seven million.
The Internet as a news source has obvious pluses and minuses. The minuses have to do with the truth that the quality of reporting varies considerably.
Many sites, including mainstream websites, have deserted standard journalistic practices and requirements in search of more and more “eyeballs.” Objectivity, once the gold requirement of reporting, is now typically viewed as old-fashioned, a ratings loser. When success is determined mainly in regards to “clicks,” the outrageous beats the sober practically each time.
Inserting viewpoint, even in the middle of a news story, is a method in which journalists can distinguish themselves. And in mainstream media outlets, those opinions extremely tend to be liberal.
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Judith Miller, Pulitzer Prize-winning former press reporter for the New York Times, describes why Americans’ trust in the news media has actually fallen, and why that matters.
The market has actually ended up being politically polarized and, in the extremely competitive age of numerous 24-hour cable television news channels and the Internet, it’s under extreme financial pressure. In the 1950s, the media universe consisted primarily of a few national television broadcast networks, and regional TV and radio stations, many of which got much of their “news” from significant wire services and the country’s big newspapers. The Internet as a news source has apparent pluses and minuses. Inserting viewpoint, even in the middle of a news story, is a way in which reporters can differentiate themselves.
