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>(2) the public's willingness to unquestioningly consume everything that such media produces. What? The predominate pattern today is nobody believing anything

• mwint 4y ago
  The media became untrustworthy before people stopped trusting it.
  • myko 4y ago
    Not really. There was a concerted effort by media figures (Limbaugh, Fox, Beck, etc.) to push a false narrative that media is untrustworthy, in order to push their radical views. In a way it was self fulfilling prophecy as more and more folks listened to them it became apparent that media is failing, and other orgs have slid down that path as well.
• adamrezich 4y ago
  > The predominate pattern today is nobody believing anything the media says. perhaps in your social circles. plenty of people, especially older people, get 100% of their news nightly, out of habit, by watching cable television, and are aware of the existence of "bias" in the news they consume only insofar as, hey, if I watch CNN and MSNBC and FOX, then I'm getting a balanced news diet!
• juve1996 4y ago
  I disagree with that in general. Most people distrust some media, not all, and typically it's the "other side's" media. The fact is most people are stupid and woefully undereducated. That's why media gets away with this - the populace is dumb, and therefore so too is its media. It's just moral panics all the way down, on both sides.