A recent poll in the US shows that 60% of people say establishment media are to blame for misinformation. The poll conducted for Associated Press reveals a deep distrust of establishment media and politicians. It would be a fair assumption to suggest the numbers would be the same here.
Six out of ten Americans say the establishment media are to blame for misinformation, an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights poll revealed Monday.
While 60 percent say the establishment media are to blame for misinforming the public, a similar number say they bear responsibility for addressing it.
Nine out of ten Americans say the media’s misinformation is a problem. About 33 percent of Americans told the pollsters they see misleading establishment media headlines or false claims from politicians every day.
Americans also blame the establishment media for political polarization. About three out of four Americans say the media are responsible for the polarization, and just under half of those sampled have little to no trust in the media’s accuracy or fairness in reporting.
Only 16 percent say they are very confident that the media report the news fully and fairly. Forty-five percent told the pollster they have little to no confidence at all.
Respondents were also skeptical of the establishment media’s intentions. Just 20 percent said the media are working to protect the nation’s democratic republic. Four in ten said the media are trying to hurt it.
Breitbart
This will be the same here, with our media in lockstep with, and in many respects, shilling messages for the Labour Government.
If we look at some recent occurrences of issues such as free speech, we see the media taking sides with those seeking to silence the voices of women. They are likewise promoting division and polarisation with their support for Maori wonderfulness, co-governance and other race-based separatist policy settings. That is partly because they have golden shackles in the form of funding from the Public Interest Journalism Fund which requires them to sign up for the heroic modern assumptions that the Treaty of Waitangi was an equal partnership and ignore the words like “cede”.
The PIJF has corrupted our media, no matter how often they explain it hasn’t, in ways that have changed political discourse in New Zealand.
The establishment media are as much involved in the political process as political parties, with their willingness to set the agenda on all manner of woke policy ideas from co-governance to climate change to promoting a trans agenda.
They have abrogated their responsibilities inherent in being the fourth estate. They sold out their readers and their shareholders.
Public trust in national news media has plummeted in recent years. A February poll found 50 percent of Americans say the national media intend to mislead, misinform, and persuade the public. Only 35 percent say most news organizations can be relied upon.
Thirty-five percent of respondents say national news organizations, such as CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the Washington Post, and Politico care more about pushing cultural activism than reporting news that interests their readers, viewers, or listeners.
A recent example of the media pushing disinformation is Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell.” At least 15 establishment media personalities claimed Hunter’s laptop emails were likely Russian propaganda before the New York Times admitted it was authentic two years later. CNN finally admitted that Hunter’s laptop was authentic 532 days after the initial story broke on October 24, 2020 — notably calling it “Russian disinformation” and “made up” at the time.
Recent polling shows 79 percent of Americans say former President Donald Trump would have won reelection in 2020 if Hunter’s laptop had been known to voters. Seventy-one percent of Americans believe accurate reporting of Hunter’s laptop could have altered the 2020 presidential election.
Breitbart
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