The Media

Interest in the news, among young people in particular, has reached a new low, according to a global survey.

While engagement dipped for all age groups, the highly valued younger demographic was more prone to avoiding the news, most commonly due to fatigue and the negative effect on how they feel, the 2022 Reuters Institute Digital News Report found.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, pro-interventionist accounts have dominated the airwaves and op-ed pages.

Far too often, the elite U.S. press has been a reliable mouthpiece for Washington’s dubious foreign policies. That was true during the Cold War, except for a brief period of disillusionment and dissent once the Vietnam War became such an obvious debacle. That period of more vigorous scrutiny and skepticism did not last long, however. When George H. W. Bush launched his drive for U.S. military intervention in the Persian Gulf to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other elite outlets were fully on board with that agenda, as their shamelessly biased treatment of the relevant issues confirmed. That pro-interventionist bias became even more flagrant during the Balkan crises of the 1990s, the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, and Washington’s subsequent campaigns for forcible regime change in Libya and Syria. There was very little daylight between the official U.S. government positions on those issues and the dominant media narratives.

“Large numbers of people see the media as subject to undue political influence…”

June 14 (Reuters) – A growing number of people are selectively avoiding important news stories such as the coronavirus pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the cost-of-living crisis, according to a report released on Tuesday.

While the majority of people surveyed consume news regularly, 38% said they often or sometimes avoid the news – up from 29% in 2017 – the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism said in its annual Digital News Report. Around 36% – particularly those under 35 – say that the news lowers their mood.

Trust in news is also declining, and is lowest in the United States. On average, 42% of people said they trust most news most of the time; that figure has fallen in almost half the countries in the report and risen in seven.

Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, is cutting back on telling its readers what to think due to what must be an alarming number of subscription cancellations.

“Readers don’t want us to tell them what to think,” said the Gannett editors, according to the far-left Washington Post (an outlet that knows all about telling its readers what to think). “They don’t believe we have the expertise to tell anyone what to think on most issues. They perceive us as having a biased agenda.”

A former researcher reveals it’s plagued by corruption

OTTAWA — Google is warning that the federal government’s online news bill could force it to subsidize non-authoritative or biased news sources, such as the Russian state-sponsored news agency Sputnik.

But the organization representing Canada’s news media industry says the wording of the bill is tight and specifically excludes outlets that promote the interests of an organization.

Google argues the bill’s definition of an eligible news source is so broad that non-professional news outlets with two or more journalists in Canada, including those funded by foreign states, could be eligible for payment from tech giants.

A CNN+ worker has branded his own network’s shows ‘the dregs’ of the network – as media reporter Brian Stelter raised eyebrows by questioning whether it was really a flop.

On Friday – a day after the three week-old streamer was axed after wasting $300 million – one disgruntled former CNN+ employee told Fox News the venture was always ill-conceived.

It should have happened a long time ago.

But well, it’s happening now.

Brian Stelter, the television “journalist” who’s the suckup’s suckup in an industry full of stenographers, prevaricators, and teachers’ pets, may now be on his last legs at CNN.