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> our faith in the internet may erode until we distrust it as much as we do TV news strange comparison from a European perspective, as TV news are seen as bala

• hrktb 8y ago
  France, so it might be a bit different. My parents religiously watched evening news every single day for 10 years, then stopped and switched to newspapers. People of my age range though have a much more vivid memory of info that were broke on the net and didn’t hit tv channels (specialy nuclear plant related issues, police violence), internal fights in tv channels that impacted how news got presented, and how the last years terrorist attacks were covered with horrible misrepresentation of dumb footage, borderline obstruction to police activity and so many things. I don’t think most people would describe tv news as fair and balanced.
• VladTheImplier 8y ago
  How did you come to this conclusion? In Germany survey after survey shows some deep mistrust. Between 40%-60% depending on where and how the survey took place describe mainstream media as "not trustworthy", whilst a certain survey asked for malicious intent specifically and 20% agrees with the notion main stream media is manipulating the public with false information on certain topics. Source: https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Das-Vertrauen-in-Medien-ist-nicht-nur-in-Deutschland-gering-3176801.html https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Das-Vertrauen-in-Medien-ist...
  • f_allwein 8y ago
    Interesting - wasn't aware of that...