When Americans Lost Faith in the News

Ponder the deranged claim that calling the media liars is “censorship”. When the media calls its political opponents liars is that censorship? Then again the media actively calls for censorship of its opponents.

Why? Maybe it’s the constant non-stop lies.

The level of media trust steadily declined since 1976. By the 90s, it was at 50 percent. Aside from occasional dives into the 40s, it tended to stay there in the oughts until 2008.

What happened in 2008? Obama. The media whored out whatever shreds of its credibility to launch a full-scale cult of personality campaign for Obama. Under Obama, media trust dipped to 40 and by 2016 hit 32.

Louie could have told New Yorker readers this rather than pretending that Trump arrived and somehow brainwashed the public into not trusting the media. The statistics are there. But the media can’t help lying.

And then it wonders why no one has any faith in the news.

Here, let me help you guys out.

The only ones those newsrooms build trust with are the likeminded.

While the New Yorker repeats the same old cliches, the media is suffering with both sides of the political spectrum. Having abandoned even the pretense of objectivity, the right openly hates the media, centrists distrust it as a partisan organ and for many lefties the media is insufficiently biased.

Everyone hates the media and no one trusts it. Everyone expects it to repeat its propaganda and hates it when it doesn’t.

And the media did that to itself when it decided to turn into an echo chamber for a guy named Barry.

I don’t know if there’s a way back. Colbert’s old producer at CNN claims he’s trying, but I’m not so sure our society even has a way back. And most of the media isn’t bothering. It’ll just dust off the old lies and repeat them again while insisting that it needs to be even more biased. Back to Louie at the New Yorker.

The problem is the media is too objective and not biased enough. When all it does is scream through a megaphone, “OUR POLITICAL ENEMIES ARE EVIL AND MUST BE BUTCHERED IN THE STREETS” 24 hours a day, then finally public trust in the media will be restored.

The lack of self-awareness is truly astounding. But if they were self-aware, they wouldn’t be the media.