Mainstream media members professed shock this week when the White House took over access and pool assignments in the press briefing room from the White House Correspondents Association. They professed even more shock when people scoffed at the argument that this was an affront to democracy and transparency.
Perhaps there may be a good argument in that response, but the American public simply doesn’t have any trust in the media to be transparent and honest. A new survey from Gallup shows that trust in their integrity has fallen to yet another all-time low, unsurprisingly:
GALLUP: Americans’ trust in the mass media is at its lowest point in more than five decades. pic.twitter.com/EBwH7h3Nd2
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) February 27, 2025
About two-thirds of Americans in the 1970s trusted the “mass media — such as newspapers, TV and radio” either…
