Joe vs. Times – How to explain the erosion of trust in institutions
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Joe vs. Times – How to explain the erosion of trust in institutions
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Re: Joe vs. Times – How to explain the erosion of trust in institutions
#2>As someone raised in a democratic country, where most media outlets have been molded by decades of existence, this opinion struck me as naive and obviously wrong.
What an odd statement. The NY Times ran with constant Russia collusion articles for over 3 years and some of their "journalists" even won Pulitzer prizes for their fiction all while knowing the story was false, but it served their agenda.
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#3These compared items have too many dimensions to simply pick the best. NY times deffo have more pens, cameras and experience but there are other factors also, like authenticity and transparency.
Re: Joe vs. Times – How to explain the erosion of trust in institutions
#4>As someone raised in a democratic country, where most media outlets have been molded by decades of existence, this opinion struck me as naive and obviously wrong. What an odd statement. The NY Times ran with constant Russia collusion articles for over 3 years and some of their "journalists" even won Pulitzer prizes for their fiction all while knowing the story was false, but it served their agenda.
Odd that Viktor Yanukovych and Donald Trump had the same campaign manager.
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#5I think this pandemic highlighted this well. One thing that was really interesting to see in Hong Kong was that many people distrust the government but very few thinks the government is inept. This seems to be true for mainland China as well.
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#6>As someone raised in a democratic country, where most media outlets have been molded by decades of existence, this opinion struck me as naive and obviously wrong. What an odd statement. The NY Times ran with constant Russia collusion articles for over 3 years and some of their "journalists" even won Pulitzer prizes for their fiction all while knowing the story was false, but it served their agenda.
The NY Times also spent years promoting Bush administration lies about Iraq, in support of that misbegotten war.
Re: Joe vs. Times – How to explain the erosion of trust in institutions
#7As someone who has never trusted institutions, nor seen any particular reason they should be considered trustworthy, the contrary question feels more interesting: why did people in the past have so much faith in powerful organizations? Was it a function of centralized mass media? Given the a US-centric nature of the research, was it something about the depression/WWII/post-war boom experience?
Re: Joe vs. Times – How to explain the erosion of trust in institutions
#8As someone who has never trusted institutions, nor seen any particular reason they should be considered trustworthy, the contrary question feels more interesting: why did people in the past have so much faith in powerful organizations? Was it a function of centralized mass media? Given the a US-centric nature of the research, was it something about the depression/WWII/post-war boom experience?
Media environment IMO. There wasn't enough bottom-up information; gatekeepers served as more aggressive filters than social media algorithms do.
Re: Joe vs. Times – How to explain the erosion of trust in institutions
#9>an establishment made up of thousands of workers, jointly aiming to present information as accurately as possible
I don't think that's what media organizations "aim" for, which is why I don't trust them.
Re: Joe vs. Times – How to explain the erosion of trust in institutions
#10>As someone raised in a democratic country, where most media outlets have been molded by decades of existence, this opinion struck me as naive and obviously wrong. What an odd statement. The NY Times ran with constant Russia collusion articles for over 3 years and some of their "journalists" even won Pulitzer prizes for their fiction all while knowing the story was false, but it served their agenda.
Odd that Viktor Yanukovych and Donald Trump had the same campaign manager.
Totally unrelated, but if it satisfies your confirmation bias then so be it.