In this @Axios piece, @felixsalmon says that the decline of Americans' trust in media is "mostly not a function of Trump's war on "fake news".
That's true, sort of.
It's a function of a nearly 50-year post-Watergate war on fact-based news by political...
axios.com/media-trust-cr…
That's true, sort of.
It's a function of a nearly 50-year post-Watergate war on fact-based news by political...
axios.com/media-trust-cr…
...activists looking to bully the press into holding their fire on corruption and scandal so as to prevent what happened to Nixon from ever happening again, and in recent years they've been joined in their efforts by lefty "media critics" who would like the press to go easy on...
...their side. Add to that the completely irresponsible cable news culture that has created an environment where viewers can't tell the difference between news and opinion by letting primetime pundits conduct interviews of high-profile gov't officials instead of insisting that...
...they speak to legitimate reporters if they want to appear on their networks, and you have a toxic soup in which everyone thinks everyone else has a "side" and no one trusts anyone but those they think are on their own "side."
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