Asta
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« on: April 17, 2021, 10:34:46 PM » |
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Not much.
Decline of trust in media is a worldwide phenomenon, not just that of America. Unlike what people claim, the media hasn't changed much as much as the technological development and our cultural adaptation to it. Wide availability of multiple news sources has produced Dunning-Kruger effect, in which people habitually overestimate their knowledge and abilities and Trump is just a symptom of this phenomenon. People routinely go unpunished for saying the most absurd conjectures. Even the average joe can create a YouTube channel distorting the conventional news and replacing it with Pepe the frog memes.
In the world in which attention span of people is so short, and refusal to read the articles or admit ever being wrong in political discourse is increasing, people will stay nonchalant as long as the media sacrifices truth in favor of clickbait and even inflammatory reaction.
People always advance the proposal that the media should keep it based on factual and non-ideological. If they did, that will almost certainly make for lower ratings. People don't tune in too long unless it's reactionary.
There is really no easy solution to restoring trust.
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