An interesting survey - the media

Exactly what I have been thinking - us normals are fed up with the mainstream media.
From San Francisco PR Company Bospar:

Bospar Study: Nearly All Americans Are Troubled by the Current State of the Media
SAN FRANCISCO – SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 – Bospar, the boutique PR firm that puts tech companies on the map, has released the results of its Ethics in Media survey. The new data comes as Bospar hosts its Ethics in Media panel with the San Francisco Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and the San Francisco Press Club on Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. The event will take place at Werqwise on 149 New Montgomery St. in San Francisco.

ABC Veteran anchor Cheryl Jennings will moderate the discussion. Panelists include former Wall Street Journal reporter and Message Lab CEO Ben Worthen and former KRON Executive Producer and Bospar Principal Curtis Sparrer.

Bospar and Propeller Insights surveyed 1,010 American adults and discovered that more than 95% are troubled by the current state of media. The reasons for their concern include the following:

1. 1. Reports on fake news – 53%
   2. Reporting gossip – 49%
   3. Lying spokespeople – 48%
   4. Celebrity opinions – 36%
   5. Left-wing agendas – 34%
   6. Gotcha journalism – 33%
   7. Right-wing agendas – 32%
   8. Puff pieces in exchange for access to other important interviews – 31%
   9. Blind items being reported in the news – 30%
   10. Hit pieces – 21%
   11. Rise of independent contributors versus on-staff media – 14%

And an overwhelming majority (67%) believe ethics in journalism will be worse during the 2020 presidential campaign. When asked about the impact unethical journalism has on the country, Americans cited four chief problems:

• • 64%: It creates division and partisanship
  • 63%: It fuels inaccuracies
  • 60%: It incites hate
  • 57%: It creates fear

Heh - could have told you that a long time ago. The media pushes the liberal narrative and not the truth.

Nothing new... Remember Rathergate?

The Killian documents controversy (also referred to as Memogate or Rathergate) involved six purported documents critical of U.S. President George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard in 1972–73. Four of these documents were presented as authentic in a 60 Minutes broadcast aired by CBS on September 8, 2004, less than two months before the 2004 Presidential Election, but it was later found that CBS had failed to authenticate the documents. Subsequently, several typewriter and typography experts concluded the documents were blatant forgeries, as have most media sources. No forensic document examiners or typography experts have authenticated the documents, and this may not be technically possible without the original documents. The purveyor of the documents, Lt. Col. Bill Burkett, claims to have burned the originals after faxing copies to CBS.

Typewriters that produced true proportional output were hellishly expensive back in the 1970's and no Air National Guard office would have one ($120K in today's money). The supposed memo was visually identical to the same memo typed out on a computer using Microsoft Word with the default settings. Dan Rather pushed and pushed and pushed the story as it was before President Bush's election. Fake News.