Podcast
Pivot
In her memoir, Margaret Sullivan recounts her journalism career, including her time as the public editor of The New York Times, and discusses the state of trust in news media today. She reflects on challenges faced by the industry, such as bias, flawed reporting, and the impact of social media.
The state of trust in the news media is pretty low. It depends on when you measure it and so on. But it's certainly below 50 percent, well below. And if you measure it among Republicans, it's rock bot...
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In her memoir, Margaret Sullivan recounts her journalism career, including her time as the public editor of The New York Times, and discusses the state of trust in news media today. She reflects on challenges faced by the industry, such as bias, flawed reporting, and the impact of social media.
The state of trust in the news media is pretty low. It depends on when you measure it and so on. But it's certainly below 50 percent, well below. And if you measure it among Republicans, it's rock bottom.
There was a time in the mid-70s, shortly after the Watergate scandal and the fact that Woodward and Bernstein unveiled this, and after The New York Times and The Washington Post published the Pentagon Papers, when the public's trust in the news media was in the mid-70s.
So it has really plummeted over the years.
I think that more publicly funded news media would be a good thing.
My biggest worry is that the American press is not up to this moment that we're experiencing. We are at a hinge moment in American history where democracy is truly on the line. And the press is kind of very mired in doing things the wrong the same way as always.