In F. Richard Ciccone’s Nov. 9 essay “Trust the 1st Amendment . . . and us” (Op-Ed), Jack Fuller, president of Tribune Publishing Co., in trying to explain the decreasing amount of trust the public has in journalists, said: “We are not losing their trust because of what we do. We are losing their trust because of how we do what we do. We are seen as intruding. We hurt people.”
Can he be that out of touch with reality? Journalists are losing trust precisely because of what they do (their liberally biased coverage of the news). The public does not want journalists to spin the news for them. The public wants the straight news, as objective as possible. The public can then spin the news however it wants by itself.
There are millions of people like me out here hammering the media for that liberal bias, and we are contributing to the distrust of journalists in the dominant media. We are also enjoying immensely the effectiveness of our campaign to expose the dominant media.
If the dominant media want to improve their reputations with the public, they can start by being fair to the public, by not insulting the public’s intelligence, by not spinning the news for us, by not strenuously pushing liberal causes like “gay rights” (sad wrongs). I guess we’ll see if journalists are smart enough to get themselves out of their credibility problem.
