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Disturbing Poll Reveals 26% Of Americans Still Trust The Media
submitted 1 year ago by BISH from babylonbee.com
[–]hfxB0oyA 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun - 1 year ago (3 children)
Funny enough, this Bee article is based on an actual study. Unsurprisingly, a search returns very few large US news orgs covering the story.
[–]ActuallyNot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
Slightly disturbing study.
Weird mix of awareness of fake news, and believing fake news being correlated with mistrust of media.
It reads a bit like fox news viewers are saying the other news sources are unreliable, but consumers of fact-based journalism are grading the news source that they consume.
[–]Megatron95 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
🤡
[–]Bonn1770 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
I get all my news from 4chan. They always put a nice schizo spin on every happening.
[–]dicknipples 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun - 1 year ago* (7 children)
One of many typical lies one reads on Saidit and one reason for its bad reputation.
If anyone wants to have a sensible discussion of news media, check actual polls and be fucking specific:
For example: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/27/u-s-adults-under-30-now-trust-information-from-social-media-almost-as-much-as-from-national-news-outlets/
U.S. adults under 30 now trust information from social media almost as much as from national news outlets
That's terrifying.
Whereas, 65% of US adults tend to trust national news media and 71% tend to trust local news media.
One of the factors bringing down these averages is the 42% of Repuglicans brainwashed by Trump & Fox into believing that national news media is "fake news", unless it's repeating Fox "News" and other disinformation propagandists. We know that Trump lied 50,000 times in 4 years, and that he repeated lies he heard on Fox News, which is constantly called out for its lies. Most recently, Fox helped Trump lie about the election: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trump/673132/
As for local news, the largest ownership of local stations is supposedly Sinclair Broadcast Group, which we know should not be trusted.
[–]scryforhelp 7 insightful - 6 fun7 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 6 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
Get a booster
[–]BISH[S] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun - 1 year ago (2 children)
Folks around here are too well-informed to pay attention to your bullshit.
[–]dicknipples 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
Folks around here
As if you know ANYTHING about so-called "folks around here"
STFU
[–]BISH[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
[–]Megatron95 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
The issues with these studies are the meanings of the words in the end. What does it mean to trust the media? Do I believe what the media is saying is true? Factually speaking it's very rare for them to outright fabricate information. Doing so creates a kind of media feeding frenzy anyway as competing news organizations love that kind of scandal.
Are they biased? Do they mix factual reporting with opinion and conjecture? Do the business realities of the media influence what stories are run and how they are presented. Of course the answer to all these questions is yes.
Most people tend to simply believe those sources which reflect their own biases. I am guilty as charged here. But I do think it very important people stop for two seconds to think about what is actually being said. Especially for any kind of outrage story. Saw one race bating piece on social media earlier today showing someone behaving like a right twat. But then I got to thinking and I was like, I almost never see this situation in real life. It's so rare it might as well not happen, and yet it happens on the internet everyday. The internet is the funhouse mirror of clown world after all. But perhaps the clown reflected in it is your own. Your own personal clown that is. Most people can't see theirs. But I can. Those pills the government gives you make him go away but I replaced mine with watch batteries so no one is the wiser.
[–]dicknipples 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
Yep - though the batteries are expensive in the long term.
[–]filbs111 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
26% are afraid that the media might find out how they voted in the poll.
[–]Feldheld 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
Only 26%? No way. More like 75%. Most people may rationally realize that the media arent trustworthy, but in their day-to-day lives they actually do trust the media most of the time. 75% and more still vote for those politicians the media promote and hate those the media teach them to hate.
Without this infantile trust in the media by the vast majority of the people the COVID mass psychosis would not have been possible, and Biden would live in a care home right now. Merkel would have never been Chancellor in Germany, neither would grotesque WEF maggots like Trudeau or Macron be presidents in their countries.
For the majority of the people the media have become their new modern church.
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