{"id":293571,"date":"2021-01-22T04:16:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T09:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=293571"},"modified":"2021-01-24T19:04:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T00:04:12","slug":"americans-trust-in-mainstream-media-has-never-been-lower-but-journalists-insist-its-the-audiences-fault-not-theirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/americans-trust-in-mainstream-media-has-never-been-lower-but-journalists-insist-its-the-audiences-fault-not-theirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans\u2019 trust in mainstream media has never been lower \u2013 but journalists insist it\u2019s the audience\u2019s fault, not theirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Not only in the US, but everywhere. Let us celebrate the end of MSM&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">Fewer than half of Americans trust mainstream media, according to PR firm Edelman\u2019s annual \u201ctrust barometer.\u201d But rather than attempt to repair the relationship, media outlets blame their audience\u2019s poor \u2018information hygiene.\u2019<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Long headed for collapse, Americans\u2019 trust in the media establishment hit an all time low in 2021, falling three points overall to just 46 percent, according to Edelman\u2019s most recent annual survey. The figure marks the first time Americans\u2019 trust of journalism sank below the 50 percent mark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Americans\u2019 trust in social media also hit rock bottom, clocking in at a miserable 27 percent, according to Edelman\u2019s annual \u201ctrust barometer.\u201d Globally, people\u2019s faith in social media wasn\u2019t much better, with just 35 percent of users deeming it a trustworthy source for \u201cgeneral news and information.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/513269-edelman-trust-barometer-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10159363585159345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Original post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: Not only in the US, but everywher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":293576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}