Trust in liberal media at all time low

 The Lid:

A new report from Axios indicates trust in traditional media sources has hit an all-time low, with fewer than half of all Americans confident in the information they are receiving.

Using information from Edelman’s annual trust barometer, the report notes that trust in traditional media has plummeted even since 2020.

Axios states that just 46 percent of all Americans trust the media. Following the election, numbers dropped even further as just 18 percent of Republicans express faith in purveyors of the news.

“Mistrust of media is now a central part of many Americans’ personal identity — an article of faith that they weren’t argued into and can’t be argued out of,” they write.

It’s difficult to argue in favor of trusting the media after the absolute debacle that was coverage of the Trump administration since he announced his candidacy in 2015.

Mainstream journalists on day one of the Biden presidency this week morphed from attack dogs to curled-up kittens. The displays were nauseating:

  • CNN contributor Van Jones cried over President Biden’s inauguration, wailing, “Thank God, hallelujah, and Jesus, I’m so happy.”
  • Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, who attacked Trump during the debates, hailed Biden’s inaugural speech as “the best inaugural address I ever heard.”
  • MSNBC’s Brian Williams declared the country was “back and under new management.”
  • ABC News’ Byron Pitts called Biden “papa-in-chief.”
  • MSNBC’s Chuck Todd cooed that Biden is “the better angel president.”

As soon as Trump left office, the WaPo ‘Fact Checker’ stopped tracking ‘false and misleading statements’ coming out of the White House.

By contrast, MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace told her audience she would create a policy “that a Republican must assert the truth before they’re allowed to share any other views.”

Translation: Pledge allegiance to MSNBC’s version of the news, or else.

With that kind of messaging by supposedly straight news sources, how are there even 46 people in America that trust the media, let alone 46 percent of them?

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There is more.

While I still review the mainstream media on daily basis for stories of interest, they have become much rarer. The fawning coverage of Biden is as disgusting as the anti-Trump stories were.  A rare straight news story is hard to find.

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