Growing skepticism over journalistic integrity
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NEW YORK (April 14, 2021) A study of the public s attitude toward the press reveals that distrust goes deeper than partisanship and down to how journalists define their very mission.
The study, released Wednesday by the Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, suggests ways that news organizations can reach people they may be turning off now.
The study defines five core principles or beliefs that drive most journalists: keep watch on public officials and the powerful; amplify voices that often go unheard; society works better with information out in the open; the more facts people have the closer they will get to the truth; and it s necessary to spotlight a community s problems to solve them.
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Critics lit into liberal Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan Wednesday after she lamented what she described as a troubling disconnect between the public and core journalistic values.
Sullivan was reacting to a new study by the Media Insight Project that tested public attitudes toward five purported core values of journalism: oversight, factualism, giving voice to the less powerful, transparency and social criticism. The study found that just 11% of Americans fully support all five of the journalism values tested.
The columnist also highlighted a link in the study between people s moral values and what they value in journalism and called for reporters to broaden the appeal of their stories.
Study finds people want more than watchdogs for journalists
By David Bauder - AP Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) A study of the public’s attitude toward the press reveals that distrust goes deeper than partisanship and down to how journalists define their very mission.
In short: Americans want more than a watchdog.
The study, released Wednesday by the Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, suggests ways that news organizations can reach people they may be turning off now.
“In some ways, this study suggests that our job is broader and bigger than we’ve defined it,” said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute.
Posted April 14, 2021
The deep divides over trust in the news media are usually portrayed as largely ideological. Democrats are seven times more likely than Republicans to say they trust the mainstream media, and independents are four times as likely.
But the argument over media trust often has the feel of people talking past each other many journalists denying they slant the news to help one party over another, while many of their critics, especially on the right, scoff at that denial.
Still others, particularly on the left, question whether some basic notions of journalistic independence and open-minded inquiry are a delusion and the press should become more strictly partisan.
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