Trust in the mainstream media has never been lower and Chuck Todd, the former host of Meet the Press, thinks he knows why. During a recent appearance on Newsmax, Todd listed a handful of contributing factors before finally laying the blame on ‘big tech and algorithms.’
That’s not actually the reason, and I would venture a bet that Todd knows this.
People don’t trust the media because over the last several years, they have let the mask slip too many times with Trump, Russiagate, Covid, trans issues, and on and on.
I will give Todd credit for offering a serious answer when asked what he thinks Trump has gotten right in his second term. He cites the closed southern border and the progress Trump is making in the Middle East. On the media, Todd’s comments are delusional.
From Newsmax:
The sharp decline in trust in the news media reflects a wider collapse of confidence in American institutions, in that journalists can be only as reliable as the sources they are given, Chuck Todd, the former “Meet the Press” moderator and host of “The Chuck ToddCast,” told Newsmax on Saturday.”One of the reasons I think trust in media has fallen to so, so low is remember what the media is,” Todd said on Newsmax’s “America Right Now.” “It’s a reflection of ‘I always say I’m as good as the sources I have, not necessarily the sources I want at times.'”…”We may be reporting what the ‘experts’ tell us,” he said. “But if the public doesn’t trust those experts, and then we in the media are quoting those experts, they don’t trust us.”He said distrust now runs across ideological lines.”What you have now, I would argue, is essentially the left doesn’t trust the media now, and the right doesn’t trust the media,” Todd said.Todd also pointed to the modern information ecosystem, especially technology platforms and recommendation systems, as a driver of polarization and a barrier to rebuilding common sets of facts.”I put the blame on big tech and algorithms that sort of, I think, make it too easy for too many people to live in a bubble, a filter bubble,” he said.
Here’s the clip:
I recommend watching the whole segment:
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