{"id":237287,"date":"2021-06-28T07:40:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T07:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=237287"},"modified":"2021-06-29T06:03:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T06:03:48","slug":"the-united-states-last-in-media-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=237287","title":{"rendered":"The United States Last in Media Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Turley \u2013 Jonathan Turley.com June 26, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

For years, we have been\u00a0discussing the decline of journalism<\/a>\u00a0values with the rise of open bias in the media. Now, a newly released\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford has found something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The United States ranked dead last in media trust among 49 countries with just 29% saying that they trusted the media. The most tragic aspect is that it does not matter. The media has embraced the advocacy journalism and anyone questioning that trend risks instant cancellation.\u00a0 The result is a type of state media where journalists are bound to the government by ideology rather than law.<\/p>\n

The plunging level of trust reflects the loss of the premier news organizations to a type of woke journalism. We have have been discussing how writers<\/a>, editors<\/a>, commentators<\/a>, and\u00a0academics<\/a>\u00a0have embraced rising calls for censorship and speech controls, including\u00a0President-elect Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0and his\u00a0key advisers<\/a>.\u00a0Even journalists are leading attacks on free speech and the free press.\u00a0 This includes\u00a0academics rejecting the very concept of objectivity in journalism<\/a>\u00a0in favor of open advocacy.\u00a0Columbia Journalism Dean and New Yorker writer Steve Coll<\/a> has denounced how the First Amendment right to freedom of speech was being \u201cweaponized\u201d to protect disinformation. Likewise, the University of North Carolina\u00a0recently offered an academic chair<\/a> in Journalism to New York Times\u2019 Nikole Hannah-Jones. While Hannah-Jones was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her writing on The 1619 Project, she has been criticized for her role in purging dissenting views from the New York Times pages and embracing absurd anti-police conspiracy theories. Even waiting for the facts is viewed as unethical today<\/a> by journalism professors who demand that reporters make political or social declarations through their coverage.<\/p>\n

One of the lowest moments came with the\u00a0New York Times\u2019 mea culpa<\/a>\u00a0for publishing an opinion column by a conservative senator.\u00a0 The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0was denounced by many of us for its \u00a0cringing apology after publishing a column by Sen. Tom Cotton (R, Ark.). and promising not to publish future such columns.<\/a>\u00a0It will not publish a column from a Republican senator on protests in the United States but it will\u00a0publish columns from one of the Chinese leaders crushing protests for freedom in Hong Kong<\/a>. Cotton was arguing that the use of national guard troops may be necessary to quell violent riots, noting the historical use of this option in past protests. This option was used most recently after the Capitol riot.<\/p>\n

Almost on the one-year anniversary of its\u00a0condemning its own publication<\/a> of Cotton (and forcing out its own editor), the New York Times published an academic columnist who previously defended the killing of conservative protesters<\/a>. Over at the Washington Post this week, the newspaper\u00a0promoted a columnist<\/a>,Karen Attiah, who last summer caused an outrage after she tweeted\u00a0\u201cWhite women are lucky that we are just calling them Karens. And not calling for revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given this trend, it is little surprise that viewers no longer trust the media. They have watched as stories ranging from Hunter Biden to the origins of the pandemic have been aggressively censored by Big Tech and blacked out by journalists. The problem is that this echo journalism works for some in the media even if it ultimately destroys the profession as a whole. It is a journalistic version of Hardin\u2019s Tragedy of the Commons<\/a> where everyone acts for their immediate benefit as \u201cthe inherent logic of the commons remorselessly generates tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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