Canadians’ trust in the legacy media reaches a new low: report

[The Bread Guy]

Local stations close to the source or incident are almost obliged to be spot on. Too many locals know the circumstances and if you go off script, it'll be noticed. As you get further out, people have less involvement and less knowledge of the incident ...

... and fewer direct links between the event and the person they're seeing/reading/hearing describe the event.

The media waters have become quite muddied. A so-called MSM reporter will present their stories on their particular platform (print, TV, radio, etc.) but also post it as part of the platform's 'digital content', but someone who is an actual digital media reporter - or just calls themselves that only posts online.

Yup - I can produce a web site post with the same general look/feel as MSM, and I could just be typing in my basement in my underwear. Some people may be able to do decent analysis this way, but reader beware ....

It helps that, if it is a story I care about, I try to source different traditional media outlets. Maybe its a reflection of my generation.

While onerous sometimes, that's really the best way to go these days, for sure.

 

[FJAG]

 

[Brad Sallows]

Any one non-traditional source can be suspect. It's the sum of the multitude that is burying traditional media. Enough informal source authors are moved to correct and criticize traditional and other informal sources that it's all but impossible to sustain misinformation. And while traditional media are large, they're small by comparison to the many. So the views they want to promulgate really only persist among the parts of their audiences that are part of the bubble.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Survey says.... trust in media is plummeting (unless you're a member of the predominant demographic in Army.ca ) -

Trust in traditional news media has declined
• Overall trust is down 6 points since 2019, and trust has become more polarized (more trust media “a great deal” or “not at all”).
• Trust in the media is higher among men and Canadians aged 55+.

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2021-06/RTDNA_Trust_in_News-Report-2021-06-03-v1_0.pdf

 

[Navy_Pete]

Interesting survey. I notice there was about a quarter of respondents that are less trusting in traditional media due to COVID coverage. If that's based on the traditional media being countered by 'new media', which might be unfounded tweets, facebook posts etc it's almost more of a reflection of a loss of understanding on critical review of an article for bias, legitimacy etc.

Scientist changing recommendations when they learn more about a new thing isn't an indication of them lying; it's actually just a good sign that they are basing their recommendations on the best information available at the time. It's the people that stick to their original plan when new info comes up that really worries me, not people doing the best they can and making assumptions where they have to to work through complex problems.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Interesting survey. I notice there was about a quarter of respondents that are less trusting in traditional media due to COVID coverage. If that's based on the traditional media being countered by 'new media', which might be unfounded tweets, facebook posts etc it's almost more of a reflection of a loss of understanding on critical review of an article for bias, legitimacy etc.

Scientist changing recommendations when they learn more about a new thing isn't an indication of them lying; it's actually just a good sign that they are basing their recommendations on the best information available at the time. It's the people that stick to their original plan when new info comes up that really worries me, not people doing the best they can and making assumptions where they have to to work through complex problems.

Well things like "don't go out and stock up on masks as they may not work", when they really meant: "Oh crap we don't have enough for ourselves, so tell them lies till we buy them all up". That sort of stuff burns your credibility.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

The MSM doesn't make mistakes.

They print retractions at the bottom of the back page.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Sounds like they can even out pork NDHQ.

Access to Information records show CBC has 143 executive directors

Access to Information records show CBC has 143 executive directors

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