![]() ![]() The paper argues that technology platforms also need to face up to their responsibilities around low quality news which is putting off a significant majority who worry about an increase in noise, disruptive agendas, and lack of checks. It argues that journalists and news publications should be far more open about their biases and clearer about distinguishing news from opinion and news. Others revel in a wide range of sources and feel confident in their ability to spot inaccurate or agenda-filled news.īased on these findings, the report argues that the news media needs to differentiate itself more from information that has not gone through the same professional checking processes. Does the first paragraph or caption under the photo change your impression of what occurred 3. ![]() Some of these are people who distrust the mainstream media or complain about its biases and agendas. After reading the headline, what do you think happened What do you assume about our military’s competence 2. Despite this, we also find a substantial minority who trust social media for its broad range of views and authenticity.But, people also blame other social media users for fuelling these stories by sharing without reading them. When a diagnostic test is studied in one setting for example, in hospitals and not in the intended population for which it is used the community problems with. There is a sense from respondents that feeds are becoming polluted with inaccurate information, extreme agendas, and strong opinions, perhaps encouraged by social media algorithms. Social media (24%) is trusted less than the news media in its ability to separate fact from fiction.There is more confidence in the professional integrity of journalists (and the transparency of their processes) in the US, Germany, and Denmark than in the United Kingdom, France, and Australia. For those that do trust the news media (40% across the nine markets surveyed), a significant proportion feel journalists do a good job in checking sources, verifying facts, and providing evidence to back up claims.Others are criticised for not calling out lies, keeping information back, or creating a false equivalence of partisan opinions that are obscuring facts and understanding. In many countries, particularly the US and UK, some media outlets are seen as taking sides, encouraging an increasingly polarised set of opinions.These feelings are most strongly held by those who are young and by those that earn the least. Simply put, a significant proportion of the public feels that powerful people are using the media to push their own political or economic interests, rather than represent ordinary readers or viewers. The study is based on analysing thousands of open-ended responses from the 2017 Reuters Institute Digital News Report, where we asked respondents to give their reasons for low trust in their own words, using open-ended text fields.īy coding and analysing responses, authors Nic Newman and Richard Fletcher categorise the specific issues that are driving public concern across countries.Īmong those who do not trust the news media, the main reasons (67%) relate to bias, spin, and agendas. The next day, only two CNN programs addressed the nursing home scandal collectively clocking in eight minutes and 18 seconds of coverage while MSNBC spent less than three minutes on the story.This report explores the underlying reasons for low trust in the news media and social media across nine countries (United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Australia, France, and Greece). ![]() CNN and MSNBC completely avoided the subject during their most-watched primetime shows, including "Cuomo Prime Time" anchored by the governor's little brother, Chris Cuomo. ABC's "World News Tonight" completely skipped the story altogether. While NBC's "Nightly News" spent the most time on the subject clocking in at 86 seconds, CBS' "Evening News" dedicated a brief 10 seconds during a lengthier coronavirus report, which didn't even mention Cuomo by name. The liberal networks that once idolized the governor in the early months of the pandemic offered minimal coverage of James' first report. The governor eventually reversed the decision, but not before thousands died from COVID-19 in New York nursing homes.ĪBC, CBS, NBC GO FULL DAY WITHOUT MENTIONING LATEST CUOMO NURSING HOME SCANDAL BOMBSHELL The decision created an onslaught of cases that infected thousands of elderly patients and resulted in hundreds of deaths among the state's most vulnerable population. Cuomo had directed New York nursing homes to accept patients who had or were suspected of having the virus. In January, New York Attorney General Letitia James issued another bombshell report revealing Cuomo's state Department of Health may have underreported COVID deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50%. ![]()
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