{"id":438,"date":"2014-10-22T20:03:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=438"},"modified":"2014-10-22T20:03:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:03:25","slug":"10-things-about-the-u-s-news-media-that-they-do-not-want-you-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"10 Things About The U.S. News Media That They Do Not Want You To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/10-things-about-the-u-s-news-media-that-they-do-not-want-you-to-know\">10 Things About The U.S. News Media That They Do Not Want You To Know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\"><a style=\"color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/10-things-about-the-u-s-news-media-that-they-do-not-want-you-to-know\/10-things-about-the-us-news-media\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7923\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7923\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 5px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10-Things-About-The-US-News-Media-300x300.png\" alt=\"10 Things About The US News Media\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Do you trust the news media?\u00a0 Do you believe that the information that they are giving you is true and accurate?\u00a0 If you answered yes to either of those questions, that places you in a steadily shrinking minority.\u00a0 Yes, on average Americans watch approximately\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"153 hours\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielsen.com\/nielsenwire\/online_mobile\/americans-watching-more-tv-than-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">153 hours<\/a>\u00a0of television a month, but for their news they are increasingly turning to alternative sources of information such as this website.\u00a0 Big news channels such as CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are losing hordes of viewers, and they are desperately searching for answers.\u00a0 Things have gotten so bad at CNN that they have been forced to lay off\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"hundreds of workers\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/10\/06\/media\/turner-broadcasting-reductions\/\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of workers<\/a>.\u00a0 The mainstream media is slowly dying, but they will never admit it.\u00a0 They are still convinced that they can find some way to turn this around and regain the trust of the American people.\u00a0 But it simply is not going to happen. \u00a0The following are 10 things about the U.S. news media that they do not want you to know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\"><strong>#1 The level of trust in the U.S. news media is at an all-time low.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">According to a Gallup survey that was conducted last month, only\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"40 percent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/176042\/trust-mass-media-returns-time-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">40 percent<\/a>\u00a0of all Americans have a &#8220;great deal\/fair amount&#8221; of confidence in the mass media.\u00a0 That ties the lowest level that Gallup has ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Things About The U.S. News Media That They Do Not Want You To Know. Do you trust the news media?\u00a0 Do you believe that the information that they are giving you is true and accurate?\u00a0 If you answered yes to either of those questions, that places you in a steadily shrinking minority.\u00a0 Yes, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[169,496,512,570,655,815],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corporate-media","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-news","tag-propaganda","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}