Trust In Media At An All Time Low After Fake January 6 Reports

[TC Shuts Up]

The New York Times has even been forced to retract stories it made up about the events of January 6. Networks paid John Sullivan for his biased videos.

Face it news media, no one believes you anymore.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2021/02/19 ... et-n329513

[screen glare]

You believe Redstate as a news source. Nuf said.

[Matt]

You believe Redstate as a news source. Nuf said.

There is nothing wrong with Redstate.

[screen glare]

Red.

[Rate This]

You believe Redstate as a news source. Nuf said.

There is nothing wrong with Redstate.

It’s the right wing equivalent of the Huffington Post.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

Redstate is nonsense and cannot be compared to Huffington Post. The bias on Redstate is much worse.

[TC Shuts Up]

A retraction is a retraction, even if it is on the last page of the New York Times. Obviously, they never want to admit that they are wrong. This obsession with who reports things is just plain stupid.

[jadednihilist]

A little bit of nitpicking on my end, but if you look at the data (courtesy of Axios via the Edelman Trust Barometer; https://www.axios.com/media-trust-crisi ... 283a9.html), this poll is released annually; so the distrust is a culmination of all of the events in 2020 and cannot be attributed to any single event -- such as the January 6th attack on Capitol Hill. I tried seeing if I could find anything regarding the methodology in this poll, but that data was hard to find (https://www.edelman.com/sites/g/files/a ... ometer.pdf). FWIW, I did find several incidents of dubiously ethical polling practices by this company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman_( ... troversies).

For me personally, it would make sense that skepticism in the media is higher in 2020 than in 2012-2019 (the years in which data are available) given how much the hyper-polarization of facts accelerated in 2020.