(Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons) The New York Times headquarters, 620 Eighth Avenue, 2019. media has the lowest credibility - 26 percent - among 46 nations, according to a 2022 report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. It is not a pretty confession, which is why it won’t happen. How do they level with viewers and readers that the most basic rules of journalism were ignored to participate in a witch hunt, a virulent New McCarthyism? How do they explain to the public that their hatred for Trump led them to accuse him, for years, of activities and crimes he did not commit? How do they justify their current lack of transparency and dishonesty? How do CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times and Mother Jones admit that for four years they reported salacious, unverified gossip as fact? The systematic failure was so egregious and widespread that it casts a very troubling shadow over the press. What is worse, major media organizations, which produced thousands of stories and reports that were false, refuse to engage in a serious postmortem. The failure to report accurately on the Trump-Russia saga for the four years of the Trump presidency is bad enough. This, unfortunately, is the model that now defines the commercial media. Once this credibility is gone, the press becomes nothing more than an echo chamber for a selected demographic. To cover them up, to pretend they did not happen, destroys our credibility. Writing on deadline with often only a few hours before publication is an imperfect art.īut when mistakes occur, they must be acknowledged and publicized. There are always a few stories we wish were reported more carefully.
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