{"id":1434488,"date":"2023-10-23T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1434488"},"modified":"2023-10-23T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T02:40:00","slug":"trust-in-mass-media-craters-to-record-low-as-americans-wake-up-from-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/trust-in-mass-media-craters-to-record-low-as-americans-wake-up-from-matrix\/1434488\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust In Mass Media Craters To Record Low As Americans &#8216;Wake-Up&#8217; From Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Trust In Mass Media Craters To Record Low As Americans &#8216;Wake-Up&#8217; From Matrix <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Americans&#8217; confidence that mass media &#8211; such as newspapers, TV, and radio &#8211; will report the news fairly and <strong>balanced plummeted to historic lows<\/strong> not seen since 2016, according to the latest annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/512861\/media-confidence-matches-2016-record-low.aspx#:~:text=Americans'%20confidence%20in%20the%20mass,federal%20government%20is%20also%20low.\">Gallup<\/a>\u00a0survey of trust in US institutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallup survey from Sept. 1-23 reveals:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>29% of US adults have &#8220;not very much&#8221; trust in the media.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A record-high 39% of US adults have &#8220;none at all&#8221; trust in the media.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The current 39% with no trust is the highest on record, surpassing the previous by one percentage point.<\/em>\u00a0<em>This percentage is 12 points higher than the 2016 reading.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In 2016, sharp criticism of the media came from then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The current view of the media is the grimmest in Gallup&#8217;s history.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In 2016, the most common sentiment among US adults was &#8220;not very much&#8221; trust at 41%.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A half-century of Gallup data shows Americans&#8217; trust in the media has rapidly declined.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-10-19_09-39-26.png?itok=p4osW7ZQ\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a\u00a0<strong>massive political gap in the trust of corporate media<\/strong>. About 58% of Democrats trust the media, while only 11% of Republicans feel the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-10-19_09-42-55.png?itok=M1uzRoPd\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;This low confidence reading for the fourth estate comes at a time when trust in each of the three branches of the federal government is also low,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0Gallup pointed out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In June, Gallup survey data for trust in TV news and newspapers also slid to a near-record low, as well as a survey last December that found record-low-tying ratings of the honesty and ethics of journalists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Souring distaste for mass media reflects that Americans are learning their news flow has been manipulated by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/docs-offer-glimpse-inside-censorship-industrial-complex\">censorship-industrial complex<\/a>, which is run by political and technological elites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/twitter-files-corporate-media-ignores-biggest-story-decade\">Twitter Files<\/a>, state attorneys general lawsuits, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/watch-new-york-post-editor-details-coordinated-social-media-censorship-biden-family\">investigative reporters<\/a>\u00a0have revealed the expanding network of government agencies, academic institutions, and nongovernmental organizations that actively censor citizens for talking about non-approved government narratives, such as Covid, vaccines and Hunter Biden&#8217;s business deals. These elites use corporate media to twist the truth and keep the masses locked in the &#8216;matrix.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>These Six Companies Control Much of US Media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-10-19_10-15-39.png?itok=1x6qrm-k\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the days of censorship in mass media are limited. The <strong>emergence of the parallel economy<\/strong> is fostering new capital that is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/tucker-carlsons-media-company-receives-15-million-seed-round-anti-woke-firm-1789-capital\">seeding new media ventures<\/a>, such as the <strong>Tucker Carlson on X.<\/strong> The success already on X has CNN and even Fox News envying Carlon&#8217;s views in the hundreds of millions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 10\/23\/2023 &#8211; 18:40<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/trust-mass-media-craters-americans-wake-matrix\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/trust-mass-media-craters-americans-wake-matrix<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust In Mass Media Craters To Record Low As Americans &#8216;Wake-Up&#8217; From Matrix Americans&#8217; confidence that mass media &#8211; such as newspapers, TV, and radio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-61aU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}