{"id":57574,"date":"2021-04-27T06:20:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T11:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57574"},"modified":"2021-04-27T06:20:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T11:20:27","slug":"the-mass-media-will-never-regain-the-publics-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57574","title":{"rendered":"The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public\u2019s Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/04\/26\/the-mass-media-will-never-regain-the-publics-trust\/\">The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public\u2019s Trust<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9850\" class=\"post-9850 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-journalism tag-media tag-msm tag-narrative tag-news tag-propaganda\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/medium-8.jpeg?fit=720%2C539&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/medium-8.jpeg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/medium-8.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"539\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/the-mass-media-will-never-regain-the-publics-trust\">Listen to this article:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1036928512&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxwidth=1060&amp;maxheight=1000\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This year has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/newsletters\/axios-capital-e6e0a43a-b627-4f04-bf59-f8037a1e384a.html\">marked the first time ever<\/a>\u00a0that trust in news media dropped below fifty percent in the United States, continuing a trend of decline that\u2019s been ongoing for years.<\/p>\n<p>Mass media punditry is divided on where to assign the blame for the plummet in public opinion of their work, with some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/847457776594845698\">blaming it on Russia<\/a>\u00a0and others\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/videos\/business\/2020\/12\/27\/trump-declared-war-with-the-media-did-he-win.cnn\/video\/playlists\/reliable-sources-highlights\/\">blaming it on Donald Trump<\/a>. Others, like a recent\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em>\u00a0article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/beltway\/2021\/04\/15\/restoring-public-trust-in-technology-and-media-is-infrastructure-investment\/?sh=40b06d174c86\">Restoring Public Trust In Technology And Media Is Infrastructure Investment<\/a>\u201d blame it on the internet. Still others, like a\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0article earlier this month titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ijbq3\">Bad news for journalists: The public doesn\u2019t share our values<\/a>\u201d blame it on the people themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing they all seem to agree on is that it\u2019s definitely not because the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/katevinton\/2016\/06\/01\/these-15-billionaires-own-americas-news-media-companies\/?sh=daf088e660ad\">billionaire-controlled media<\/a>\u00a0are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tTBWfkE7BXU\">propaganda outlets<\/a>\u00a0which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/03\/02\/theres-only-one-news-story-repeating-over-and-over-again\/\">manipulate us constantly<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/04\/16\/the-cia-used-to-infiltrate-the-media-now-the-cia-is-the-media\/\">conjunction with sociopathic government agencies<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPazn1XNDQI\">protect the oligarchic, imperialist status quo<\/a>\u00a0upon which the members of the billionaire class have built their respective kingdoms. It cannot possibly be because people sense that they are being lied to and are fed up with it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluidvids\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player fluidvids-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZPazn1XNDQI?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"1060\" height=\"597\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-fluidvids=\"loaded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And actually it doesn\u2019t ultimately matter what mainstream pundits and reporters believe is the cause of the public\u2019s growing disgust with them, because there\u2019s nothing they can do to fix it anyway. The mass media will never regain the public\u2019s trust.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll never regain the public\u2019s trust for a couple of reasons, the first of which is because they\u2019ll never be able to become trustworthy. At no point will the mass media ever begin wowing the public with its journalistic integrity and causing people to re-evaluate their opinion of mainstream news reporters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public\u2019s Trust Listen to this article: This year has\u00a0marked the first time ever\u00a0that trust in news media dropped below fifty percent in the United States, continuing a trend of decline that\u2019s been ongoing for years. Mass media punditry is divided on where to assign the blame for the [&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":[17039,3847,655,815],"class_list":["post-57574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-mass-media","tag-propaganda","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57574","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=57574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57575,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57574\/revisions\/57575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}