Trust of the media remains in the tanks and the public has little love for the press, but reporters sure do think highly of themselves.
There is so much good journalism happening in Denver right now/lately, across so many outlets. It makes me super-happy to see.
— Jon Murray (@JonMurray) February 9, 2022
The circle jerk of self-love throughout the comments on this post is sad.
They deserve our pity.
Agreed. And what feels like a lot of mutual respect between journalists + a willingness to amplify great work done by competitors. https://t.co/OVjvYPMt91
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) February 9, 2022
Ian Silverii, who now identifies as a journalist, is a Democrat Party operative and the husband of Democrat state Sen. Brittany Pettersen, whom the Democratic Party establishment has endorsed to replace Democrat U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter in Congress.
Not a single reporter on that string of comments countered Silverii’s assertion that he is one of the Fourth Estate.
And they wonder why the public doesn’t trust them.
This disconnect from the real world that exists below their ivory towers is evidenced by Gallup polling.
In all, 7% of U.S. adults say they have “a great deal” and 29% “a fair amount” of trust and confidence in newspapers, television and radio news reporting — which, combined, is four points above the 32% record low in 2016, amid the divisive presidential election campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. In addition, 29% of the public currently registers “not very much” trust and 34% have “none at all.”
Here’s where the love splits along party lines.
Yet Murray opines below his original tweet:
“Like, you could queue up multiple stories on TV/radio/podcasts/online/print and just let almost all your senses luxuriate in the rich reporting simultaneously.”
Maybe if the media spent less time luxuriating in their own sense and genuinely tried to present more sides of a story fairly with facts and compassion, they might get real “attaboys” from the general public, rather than just each other.