The epic failures of US media

 Joe Concha:

The U.S. media is the least trustworthy in the world, according to a comprehensive new Reuters Institute survey encompassing 46 countries.

Yes, you read that right. The country with among the most resources in this arena – human, technical and otherwise – finished dead last. Finland ranked the highest, with a 65 percent trust rating. In Kenya, the trust rating clocked in at 61 percent.

But here in the U.S.A., the home of global media giants including the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN, we’re trusted by a whopping 29 percent of those reading and watching.

Is anyone really surprised? Because in looking at polls over the past few years (even pre-Donald Trump) we’ve been trending in this dubious direction for some time.

For example, one Axios/Survey Monkey poll in 2019 found that nearly 8-in-10 independent voters said they believed that news organizations report news “they know to be fake, false or purposely misleading.” Ninety-two percent of Republicans felt the same way, as did even a majority of Democrats.

Which means readers and viewers believe that the "mistakes" we so often see, particularly in the political media that dominates the national landscape, are not happening because of human error, which is a convenient excuse offered up from left-leaning "journalists" when "bombshell" reports end up being false, fake or purposely misleading.

Russian collusion with the Trump campaign? The Mueller Report didn’t find proof of that despite all the "evidence" Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) claimed he had but never produced. That "story" dominated the first three years of the Trump era regardless, so that two-thirds of Democratic voters believe the Russians actually altered vote tallies to tip the election from Hillary Clinton to Trump.

How about the bombshell Russian bounties of U.S. troops? Never happened.
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I think what is happening is that the media wants those stories to be true because of their hatred for Trump and his supporters.  With that attitude, they look only for "evidence" that confirms their bias.  The Russian collusion hoax was perpetrated by Clinton and her backers and they also turned out to be some of the sources for stories "confirming" the allegations.  It also appears the Pulitizer committee that gave awards for these false and misleading stories wanted to believe the leftist crap too.  I would put that group into the category of misleading Americans.