Bluesky

We can all collectively thank Reagan, among other terrible things we have to deal with today due to his administration, he is also responsible for the state of news media in the US in 2025. Previous to Reagan we had a policy called The Fairness Doctrine, it was a policy introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints. Broadcasters could show opposing viewpoints via option pieces, news segments or talk shows, but if they reported on one side they were required to show the other.

In 1987 under Reagan the FCC abolished the Fairness Doctrine. Broadcasters were no longer required to air apposing viewpoints of controversial topics. This has directly lead to the echo chambers that you see in the news media today.

Journalism in the US is dead. Being shocked or angry at anything the news does or doesn't say at this point is in "fools me twice, shame on me" territory.

You'd be better off asking Days of Our Lives to weigh in.

The billionaires control the media, and they want that money/influence train to keep rolling and not derailed by the government. Doing the bare minimum of whatever pleases both sides.

pfff, stop blaming one person for a facist nation. it is the people. twice! twice they voted him into office. and those voters are also the content creators in social media. ofcourse those dumbasses trust themselves more than anyone else. idiocracy.

Money money money is all you need!

That’s frightening

The last few days

I guess that technically correct, as long as you're counting 4000 days as "the last few"

And those who do then get branded with "TDS," mocked, and ignored.

Wild that Fox News can practically say the hard R on Biden but every god-damn news channel is tippy toeing on Trump and sane-washing his bullshit

Fox News is the center piece of the crazy.

The reason? People are stupid. Too much lead paint.

It’s access journalism. Trump is just more overt about it, but each admin does it. Biden staffers refused to field questions around his acuity, Trump tried to kick out the AP from the White House Press Pool for running actual news instead of fellating him, Obama’s admin refused to honestly talk about the growing drone war, the Bush jr team chided any ‘where WMD’ reporters, Clinton…

If you say mean things or are critical of your subject, they tend to remember that and don’t volunteer information to your outlet - costing your boss exclusives and headlines, and thus ad revenue. I’m pretty sure ~~Ted~~ Rafael Cruz is never going to sit down for a 1:1 with Tucker Carlson again after he got the steel chair. White supremacist shitbag as Carlson may be, he actually did a journalism, didn’t let Cruz lie, and challenged him on the topic, and Cruz was shown to be lacking.

There is no actual journalism to be found among the main headlines, just repackaged press releases and barebones reporting devoid of context that might actually inform readers. Find an investigative reporter that deals with a topic/region you care about and follow their SubStack, or wade into Telegram and filter out the propaganda as you are able.

someday everyone will have always been against this

Social media ranking higher in trust isnt due to media accuracy. There are plenty of outlets that provide a consistent source of news. Its like the comments in here point to 5 bad news sites then smeer "news" as a whole. As if social media isnt 50x worse in every single metric.

Social Media ranks higher in trust because social media companies want users to trust the news they view on their platform. Social media "news" accounts constantly attack the reputation of traditional news outlets by pointing to bad news articles because they benefit directly from the audience losing trust.

All the print media is bought by American state propaganda, and all the social media is manipulated by hostile foreign state propaganda.

Gonna have to start doing shit ourselves, like reporting.

"there's a reason" and then OP posts neolib drivel from one of the most obnoxious, most entrenched asshole propagandists from the deep political insiders list

maybe OP doesn't understand who George Conway is or something