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The establishment media continues to become more and more unpopular — for a very good reason.A major survey came out this week showing deep distrust in the media, and then a top producer at MSNBC and a recently deposed opinion editor from the New York Times aired their own biting critiques. The message from all three is that the media has forfeited professional standards and ethics. The message is correct....A huge portion of the American public agrees with Weiss and Pekary. On Tuesday, the Knight Foundation and the Gallup polling organization released the results from a massive study of public attitudes toward the media. The results all look bad for the media, and almost all of them are worse than in the organizations’ previous study two years earlier.An astonishing 86% of people see at least a significant amount of bias in the media, with 49% of those polled seeing “a great deal†of bias. Worse, the public think inaccuracies aren’t honest mistakes, but intentional, with 54% believing the media knowingly misrepresent facts and 28% saying that reporters make up facts entirely(!). The public sees bad consequences flowing directly from these misbehaviors, with 36% saying the media bears “a moderate amount†of the blame for the nation’s political divisions, plus a whopping additional 48% saying that reporters merit “a great deal†of blame.Significantly, the public holds fast to the ideal of separating “straight news†from opinion and finds the media woefully lacking. ...
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