How Do Attitudes Match Up With Activity?

How Do Attitudes Match Up With Activity?

"Survey Finds
Huge Gap Between Press and Public on Many Issues" from Outside the
Beltway, reveals that the public's attitudes towards the reliability and their
trust in the press on any number of sub issues is at odds. But does activity
match attitude?

While newspapers in print form are bleeding, Americans appetite for news is
hardly diminishing and while blogs and other new media are gaining attention
and buzz, MSM online outlets online and on the air still outrank many of the
new and edgy sites who frequently get their content from MSM sites and then
comment on it. And the lines between cable and MSM have been blurred with Fox,
NBC, etc. having toe holds in the cable world and in the MSM world.

Probably any member of any profession would rank the performance of their profession
as better than the public would - whether it's Congress, lawyers, educators,
CEOs, car salespersons, etc. - and all professions have a certain amount of
institutional and cultural bias built in. Many professions have had to adopt
to new ways and technologies - and sadly, many jobs and professions have disappeared
which will never happen to news gathering and reporting.

Anyone or anything today is fair game and the loftier they are, the more scrutiny
they will be under. Ask Marie Antoinette and other members of elite ruling classes
who never would have guessed their fates. They have been replaced by other groups
of royalty - the Bushes, Kennedys, Clintons, etc. as well as dynasties in other
professions - change in nomenclature but not in status and power.

There will always be an MSM - it may look different and its portals may be
unrecognizable conglomrates - but they will be there to pick our minds and pockets.

 

Comments

[Larry]

As you know, I am sick of the mainstream media. I think the competition and the variety are good. I am sorry to see the print news fail though. They usually have more info. on any given subject as they are not confined by advertising schedules and other considerations of TV.