Why No One Trusts the Mainstream Media|5 Minute Video
Trust in the media is at an all-time low. However should it be? Why do less and fewer Americans trust the mainstream media. Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, author of The Smear, explains.
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Script:
Trust in the media is at an all-time low– and for good factor.
We in the business of journalism have excused ourselves from the normal guidelines that utilized to govern us, and so the most egregious type of reporting errors are becoming more typical.
Previously well-respected news organizations and skilled national press reporters are making the sorts of errors that wouldn’t be tolerated in journalism school.
When these mistakes are corrected at all, it’s with seemingly little regret.
And the corrections never get anywhere near as much attention as the original salacious– but inaccurate– narrative.
How did we get here?
I discuss that in information in my book, The Smear.
Here are 3 elements:
Initially, firewall programs that once strictly separated news from opinion have been changed by hopelessly blurred lines. Once-forbidden practices, such as editorializing within straight report and the addition of viewpoints as if fact, are not only tolerated– they’re encouraged. The result: It’s never ever been harder for Americans to separate news that’s real from news that’s not.
Example: May 14, 2016, 10 days after Donald Trump became the Republican presidential candidate, the New York Times released a smash hit post entitled, “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved with Women in Private.” The story’s authors, Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey, interviewed Rowanne Lane, an ex-girlfriend of Trump’s. Her quotes made Trump sound, at best, like a jerk, and at worst, like a predator.
The reporters went so far regarding offer their own quotes for the story, presenting their individual commentary as if it were developed reality, composing, “This is the public treatment of some ladies by Mr. Trump … degrading, impersonal, performed.”
The issue is, the reporting wasn’t real– according to Trump’s expected victim.
When the story was released, she openly accused the Times of misguiding her, composing a “hit piece” versus Trump and putting a “unfavorable undertone” on what– she stated– was “not … a negative experience.”
No matter where you stand, this was a huge advancement in terms of journalism: the main source behind front-page nationwide news discredited the whole facility of the story.
You ‘d anticipate something like that to rock the whole wire service and timely examinations, a retraction, and re-examination of policies. Yet, I can find no record of any of that. The Times and their press reporters never even printed a correction or asked forgiveness.
Second, though we might personally like or dislike a politician, as journalists we’re bound to treat them the same. Frequently, that’s not the case.
: In May 2008, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said he had gone to 57 states. He meant to state was that he had visited 47 states. When Sarah Palin made a similar gaffe, saying, “We’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies,” she was relentlessly ridiculed and mocked in the media even though everyone knew she meant to state “South Korean allies.”
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Trust in the media is at an all-time low. Why do fewer and fewer Americans rely on the mainstream media. The result: It’s never ever been harder for Americans to different news that’s genuine from news that’s not.
The story’s authors, Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey, talked to Rowanne Lane, an ex-girlfriend of Trump’s. When Sarah Palin made an equivalent gaffe, saying, “We’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies,” she was non-stop mocked and buffooned in the media even though everybody understood she implied to state “South Korean allies.”
