The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford
conducts an annual survey measuring the level of trust of mainstream media in
numerous nations. Finland’s citizens professed the most trust in their media
outlets, with nearly 2 in three of them purporting to trust “most news most of
the time.” Reuters surveyed 92,000 news consumers in 46 countries. Care to
guess which nation’s denizens exhibited the least trust in their Fourth
Estate? That would be Americans, only 29%
of whom said they generally trusted the media.
This is surpassingly sad, as a free
and unbiased press is particularly essential to a healthy, free republic, as a
means of providing accurate knowledge and information to its citizenry, as they
are tasked with manning a government of, by, and for…the people…i.e.
themselves. The Founders considered freedom of the press “one of the great
bulwarks of liberty.” The American press was granted that freedom, but in
recent decades has eschewed it in favor of furthering a rigid, dogmatic agenda.
The result is: fake
news.
The mainstream media in the United
States has lately proven itself incapable of delivering any kind of news story—or
even a sports or weather report—without lacing it with dripping contempt for
conservatives and their views. Its unbridled, unrestrained bias rose to truly
preposterous levels during the Trump administration and shows no sign of
abating. Legacy media clowns members like Brian
Stelter have instantaneously pivoted from undisguised rabid hatred of
former President Trump to a child-like adoration of President Biden, despite
his obvious senility. You would think they would have some semblance of
professionalism or dignity. But you would be wrong.
In a sane society, no one
consuming “news” disseminated by American mainstream media entities would consider
those entities to be fair and balanced. Yet, much like American high school
students who routinely rank towards the bottom of the pack on math and science
testing, the biased American media is bursting with self-esteem. Their ranks
are filled with arrogant, delusional blowhards who lecture and condescend to
nearly half of those they supposedly “serve.”
“And that’s the way it is.”
More’s the pity.
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