It’s hardly a secret that large swaths of the public have soured on the news media as reliable communicators of factual information. Big news organizations know this, of course, but whatever their doing to try and fix the situation, it isn’t working. A series of new polls released in 2023 showed the public’s distrust of the media elite has gotten worse, not better:
■ The Media Aren’t Biased by Accident: A February report found that half of the public thinks the news media intentionally skew their coverage in order to “persuade the public to adopt a particular point of view through their reporting.”
The survey, conducted by Gallup for the Knight Foundation, was summarized by Associated Press media writer David Bauder:
Asked whether they agreed with the statement that national news organizations do not intend to mislead, 50% said they…
