Posted on 01/15/2018 4:59:25 AM PST by Olog-hai
When truck driver Chris Gromek wants to know what’s really going on in Washington, he scans the internet and satellite radio. He no longer flips TV channels because networks such as Fox News and MSNBC deliver conflicting accounts tainted by politics, he says.
“Where is the truth?” asks the 47-year-old North Carolina resident.
Answering that question accurately is a cornerstone of any functioning democracy, according to none other than Thomas Jefferson. But a year into Donald Trump’s fact-bending, media-bashing presidency, Americans are increasingly confused about who can be trusted to tell them reliably what their government and their commander in chief are doing.
Interviews across the polarized country as well as polling from Trump’s first year suggest people seek out various outlets of information, including Trump’s Twitter account, and trust none in particular. […]
There’s been no love for the media for decades. The percentage expressing a great deal of confidence in the press has eroded from a high of 28 percent in 1976 to just 8 percent in 2016, according the General Social Survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago.
“Trump didn’t invent this. He didn’t cause people to start feeling this way. He’s tapping into a vein that already existed,” said Gary Abernathy, publisher and editor of the Times-Gazette of Hillsboro, Ohio, one of the few daily papers that endorsed Trump. People, he added, “are nodding their heads right away because that’s how they’ve felt.” …
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I’ve seen members of the press address the lack of trust over the years. They just don’t get it. They say things like, “Well, we often have to report bad news and since nobody likes to hear bad news they blame the press. Hey, we’re only doing our job”.
I think many of them believe that too. Their view of the world is so tainted by their progress socialist ideology that the garbage they spew is, to them, the truth.
I get a headache if I wAtch more than 30 minutes of cable newz.
Indeed, and they constantly double and quadruple down on the same lying agenda. And then the only response is to act shocked at the continuation of trust erosion.
“Trump often bypasses the vast information-gathering apparatus that reports to him in favor of getting his reality from TV, or sometimes just his gut. That has led him to conclude wrongly that a rare riot in Sweden over a drug crime was instead linked to refugee extremism..”
A RARE riot in Sweden” This ash hole happily continues telling the same lies the quisling Swedish media tell about “rare trouble from “refugees.”
Answering that question accurately is a cornerstone of any functioning democracy, according to none other than Thomas Jefferson.
Why would so-called reporters quote Thomas Jefferson as a defense? These same reporters have been smearing Jefferson for decades. What? And now they want to quote him?
They’re not even quoting him; I’m not even sure if they’re paraphrasing him. They are referring to him, and possibly trying to put words in his mouth. And that’s even more insulting on their part.
Maybe if the main stream media reported without a f-ing agenda.
Liars telling lies.
They “literally” prove why people don’t trust the media with their comments in this article. Listing Trump’s lies, the reference the NK button comment, as if he was serious. Then point out there is no actual button. Sheesh. That is why we hate the media!!!!!!!
Sorry, trust in news started eroding 40 years ago when they sold out the country, and South Vietnam, by releasing the Pentagon papers.
Today there’s only one half decent cable news source and it’s not a member of the alphabet news society . Only one cable channel covers both sides of an issue while the alphabet class is strictly running cover for the left . I am amazed at how the lefts news does not cover any positive aspects of republican issues .
That "vein", in my case, dates back to the early, early 60's.
....which was also about the time that I really began to read and listen to them.
By the time I finished active duty in '69, that "vein" was a Mother Lode and if anything today's media is orders of magnitude worse.
I not only do not trust the media, I consider them to be the worst enemy this country has ever faced.
The reality is they are a product of what they have been taught in places like Columbia Journalism school.
They believe themselves to be smarter than everyone else when the reverse is true. These journalism students are some of the most intellectually vacant people in colleges, they have some of the lowest overall IQ’s and yet they may have some of the highest GPA’s. Their high GPA owes to the fact that their coursework is fluff. Every engineering student could do the journalism courses standing on their heads. We know that the reverse is not true. These journalist types couldn’t even pass elementary algebra.
You must be referring to OAN which is not available on most cable providers.
You mean the network that declared that Roy Moore was the winner in Alabama?
Check KlowdTV online.
They’ve got OAN.
>>Where is the truth?
In the minds of free individuals who are able to seek and discuss it without coercive application of government powers...
Well, unless they’ve traded that for a paycheck from the “private” communist collectives pretending to be American businesses these days anyhow.
“I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN”
—Thomas Jefferson
In my view, two things make these stories. The first is a rumor (from an 'unnamed source') that is 'too good to check'. Sometimes, that alone makes the story. Often, though, the rumor is then 'confirmed' by an another unnamed source. This guarantees a story. Of course, the confirming source has simply heard the same rumor as the first.
The 'reporters' can then simply write the stories, and then cease any further 'reporting'. They can then spend the rest of the day pontificating on various cable news programs.
The solution to Fake News is quite simple. It involves the Rule of Holes: "When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging". Reporters need to stop pontificating, and start real reporting. Real reporting can often be quite difficult. Few try hard enough to be very good at it.
They are focusing on one spurious* remark attributed to Jefferson and ignoring his other remarks.
http://www.departmentofmemes.com/article/thomas-jefferson-hated-media-even-more-than-trump/
What a bunch of twisting and spinning!
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