Why No One Trusts The News

Why has trust in the media hit rock bottom, and what is replacing it?
~
Got a "why" you want answered? Give us your questions here:
forms.fillout....
Get new episodes in your inbox once a week: thewhyminutes....
/ whyminutes
/ thewhyminutes
Host: / nickfreitasva

[@SardonicHog]

Everyone! Look at the blue sky! The media: blue is not a real color.

[@marelven]

The media: calling the sky blue is _____ phobic!

[@mustang607]

Businesses promoting DEi is equivalent to self-flagellation.

[@akirak1871]

And it's usually done to cover up for scandals that would be very upsetting to the "progressive" types who are dazzled by DEI. Vivek Ramaswamy's book "Woke Inc" goes into a lot of detail about it.

[@timlewis5096]

I would supply the whips needed made from blackberry canes free of charge

[@robertshank8412]

Decades ago I was told of bias in journalism in third world countries. I honestly didn't expect it to be so blatantly obvious when it started showing up in Canada. When I discuss this with friends they just look at me as if I'm a kook. It's going to be a long road convincing people to stop getting their news from TV.

[@jasonsimpson4715]

He's right. On election night, I was watching a podcast from some legislator in Virginia (and I don't even live there).

[@LuxDragon]

I see what you did there...

[@Swiftninjatrev]

😂

[@Alpha7__]

Oh, thats crazy! I was watching some legislator in Virginia too. I wonder if it was the same guy!

[@gilgarazehunter5206]

That legislator wouldn't happen to have a pretty awesome beard, would he?

[@fewkeyfewkey5414]

lmao I was watching a group of people live streaming the election night rather than going on the news itself. I just like seeing engagement

[@rickt10]

When you get caught lying again and again and can't even acknowledge you got it wrong, people just turn you out.

[@MerwinWren]

I don't even trust the weather guessers these days, and they get the story right most of the time.

[@user-dk1pn8mv3j]

🤣 @ "weather guessers" Good one 👍

[@uncaboat2399]

Weather is easy. 9 times out of 10 it's pretty much the same today as it was yesterday.

[@christaverduren690]

most of the stuff they tell you is sensationalized to get your interest, they keep coming up with what I call, "Doomsday words" to make each weather event sound catastrophic....but when hurricanes like Helene SLAM into western North Carolina, funny how the press wouldn't touch that story with a ten foot pole!! Even now only Fox really covers the devastation of the people freezing in tents, the way FEMA is lying, and the massive land grab.

[@peterhessedal8539]

Just like many things: loss in trust in the media was gradual at first then suddenly all at once.

[@marelven]

Speaking of alternative medias, you could all listen this channel's host interview on the triggernometry podcast. It is always refreshing to listen to someone as clear minded and grounded as Nick Freitas. No BS, just his honest opinions on things that he actually knows about.

[@garymcaleer6112]

Excellent! John Swinton, 19th century “managing editor” of the New York Times had this to say, and nothing has changed to this day: “There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print...If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone...The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon...We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”

[@fewkeyfewkey5414]

journalists trying to spread their honest opinions even if its the truth will loose their occupation due to some rich guy corruption :/

[@Don_Beto_ptr]

They no longer limit themselves to reporting news in a neutral manner and letting people make their own decisions. Now they have an opinion on the news they deliver and, worse still, they judge and take sides.

[@joejackson6205]

Excellent. Trust everything you put out, especially your sarcasm.

[@terrylandess6072]

Nothing brings a people together like a common enemy. Convenient.

[@GeorgeSemel]

For me, it was TET-68. The Army crushed the Viet Cong to the point of nonexistence and so malled the NVA that Hanoi was looking for a way out, but Walter Cronkite said we lost the battle and the war. Marshall Gaip wrote about it in his memoir.

[@paulebelmesser2699]

100% true statement

[@kenrichter4553]

Good point..

[@shrimpkins]

Did not know that; got some reading to do...

[@kenrichter4553]

@@GeorgeSemel I watch shows explaining a tad more. The US president and congress promised to " replace bullet for bullet" to keep the communists at bay... election year cMe up democrats tool control of senate ( I believe). They drafted a bill to cut all that money.. no money no bullets, no way to fight more..

[@meekmeads]

Walter Cronkite was a (not so secret) Leftist.

[@ricardoconn3807]

Same in Britain too.

[@Nikua13]

I hope they learn to code.

[@cdevidal]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people

[@michaeloshaughnessy9718]

Spot on Nick.

[@No_one1776]

So much truth!

[@lanedexter6303]

Remember the movie “Network” in 1976? “I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

[@miceinoz1181]

Serves them right! They are not even needed in this age, everyone now looks to the internet, but unfortunately the idiots on the internet also have their own barrows to push too.

[@marcelgrabowski5939]

And I am studying journalism. At least I always planned to be independent.

[@uncaboat2399]

be careful ... you might not be able to get a job in journalism if you don't toe the line

[@marcelgrabowski5939]

@@uncaboat2399 We will see. In any case, I do have at least two solid alternatives, and most of those things are such that I can mix them instead of devoting myself to just one, so hardly a problem.

[@amatomic257]

One can only lie for so long before the truth comes out. Time is the greatest enemy of the liar and father time is undefeated.

[@uncaboat2399]

The problem is, can you hold out? Not much good for the truth to come out then be honored postmortem.

[@shlomomark2275]

Amen to that

[@XavierKatzone]

Amen! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@peachtree7721]

Mr freitas thank you also a merry christmas to you and yours from dakota territory

[@proehm]

"How do you know when our general manager's lying? His lips move." - Max Headroom (It's nothing new, you just finally noticed.)

[@williamthomas5788]

The problem is, most of the alternatives you cite depend on mainstream for most of the facts they discuss and summarize. You, for example, are a commentator, not a first hand news collector.

[@joshuagunthner1838]

actually thats all just twitter or similar now. Nothing else is fast enough. So all are responding to twitter.

[@EricRedbear]

Didn't even touch on Sinclair Broadcast Corp and their Stepford Reporters....... but they're not alone. And this isn't "The Why Hours" 🙂

[@richardross7219]

They've been lying since Cronkite retired. Why bother?

[@rogerwatson5537]

Trust has to be earned!

[@Sniperkitten971]

No one trusts the media because the media isn't trustworthy! - This message was brought to you by Captain Obvious.

[@overtonpendulum2071]

The media have forgotten that the telos of the media isn't to fight racism and homophobia. It's to objectively inform the public about important issues and the latter is mutually exclusive with the former.

[@digitaldrreamer]

Reminds me of the Israel-Gaza thing...

[@mr.rationality5349]

Good Stuff dude

[@kylebrown4293]

1:55 right wing outlets are just as bad about not reporting the truth and omitting facts. This is not a left vs right problem but an oligarch vs the commoner problem.

[@Benjanuva]

Fox is just controlled opposition. It's why Tucker left. They even have policies regarding affirming gender identity.

[@darrennew8211]

It started when advertisements started running during News hour. It's also enhanced by click-thru ads, where whoever gets the first click on an individual article gets the money. Before that, the NYT or WSJ would try to get readers to subscribe. Now they just have to grab the first click off google or wherever to get paid for that article.

[@bretth3718]

What blows my mind is why they don't see the writing on the wall and reverse course?! I guess it just shows how utterly wedded they are to their delusions of significance.

[@uncaboat2399]

They're between a Rock and a Hard Place. If they continue on their current course, their audience will completely evaporate. If they change course, their wealthy backing will completely evaporate.

[@bretth3718]

@@uncaboat2399 Good point!

[@shivendrasingh4631]

I prefer X these days as a source of accurate news updates. Elon has a major role to play here. Moreover with rise of you tube they got replaced by independent creators.

[@damonf6564]

Thankfully they are less "Mainstream" and are coming to be seen as just "Corporate" media. Mainstream has shifted to independent and social.

[@papafreak626]

In the early '90s my grandmother said never believe everything you hear on the news 🤔🤔🤔, and less than half of what the newspaper says 🧐🧐🧐

[@elsenored562]

What's causing this erosion of trust? Are news outlets putting partisanship above the truth?

[@timlewis5096]

So true. I got so pissed of with biased lies that I no longer watch the TV or read any news paper. If something happens I find out about it. If I don't hear about something, I don't care. I'm 68 and retired with a different set of values from 8 years ago. My doc loves my view as my blood pressure is normal and not taking any pills!!!

[@uncaboat2399]

I have to agree ... I just wish I could convince my wife. It's not just _her_ blood pressure, she hears another half-truth about Trump and she has to come bug _me_ about it, so _both_ our blood pressures go up!

[@paulrutledge6818]

I watched Charlie Kirk and his guys all evening. Also, I occasionally watched Patrick Bet-David.

[@myuyachenevert]

*I really appreciate your clear and simple breakdown on financial pitfalls! I lost so much money on stook market but now making around $18k to $21k every week trading different stocks and cryptos*

[@anishsekh3359]

You work for 40yrs to have $1M in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just $10K into trading from just few months ago and now they are multimillionaires

[@Freeh-l6u]

Most rich people stay rich by spending like the poor and investing without stopping then most poor people stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich but impressing them. People prefer to spend money on liabilities, Rather than investing in assets and be very profitable

[@สงวนจันทเนตร]

You are so correct! Save, invest and spend for necessities and a few small luxuries relatives to one's total assets ratio.

[@myuyachenevert]

Waking up every 14th of each month to $21,000 it’s a blessing to I and my family… Big gratitude to Josh Olfert🙌

[@mdionise]

Hello how do you make such monthly?? I'm a born Christian and sometimes I feel so down 🤦‍♀️of myself because of low finance but I still believe in God

[@kb6lcw99]

🙏

[@JamaicaZ160R1793010A]

Hence they'll need to be truthful and in the middle if they'll have a chance.

[@Munce72]

Great work Nick! Scooby snacks for you. Praying for the USA and the entire World. My allegiance is to Liberty, and the Repubic.

[@martyfenton6184]

When I was on the USS Midway 45 years ago my dad would send news articles about our operations. They were, never, ever accurate. I used my very young logic then to conclude that if they can't that right, I shouldn't trust anything until I can verify it for myself.

[@normnicholson]

Who turns on a TV anymore?

[@uncaboat2399]

I'm certainly not going watch reruns of my favorite movies on my cellphone!!

[@Slugma-kx7pv]

The more technology develops, the easier it is to call out the state for what it is. We just need to ensure the technology doesn't get taken away from the control of the people.

[@TheTibetyak]

The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam : the War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker - January 1, 1975 by Phillip KNIGHTLEY (Author) This book is about war correspondence. But news media has never been honest and filled with opinions.

[@CENTRIX4]

Not Owned A TV For 30 Years Best decision I ever made.

[@CENTRIX4]

@@mr.unknown11ભરવાડ11 My advice to anyone is throw away your TV. Fake News and Media Hysteria

[@fewkeyfewkey5414]

@@mr.unknown11ભરવાડ11instead of giving them a screen take them outside many times possible. also stop letting kids watch those dumb stupid cartoon stuffs nowadays. give them stuffs like tom and jerry that's what I used to watch all the time back then 😂.

[@onmyworkbench7000]

Voices like your sir!

[@Nadia..J]

💯

[@betelgeuse68]

A total collapse in viewership - good riddance.

[@SenorJuan2023]

Nick, why don't you have the more biased ones shown in this video? the right wing ones? I was going to share this video until I saw how biased it was too.

[@SenorJuan2023]

Fox ratings are great despite telling us all kinds of falsehoods. Explain that.

[@simongross3122]

Maybe they're lying about the ratings too :)

[@DaDitka]

Simple- the left is not the only side who enjoys lies. It's sad, because the right should have a far greater standard when it comes to truth, yet we collectively do not.

[@zionbrin1]

This whole phenomenon is another part of a major cultural shift. Specifically a change in morals, ethics, and responsibility. I have a father in law who was part of news paper back i the 80s and 90s when the there was the big rise in cable news, and then the internet. He started in the early 70s. He said he watched th8ngs change so much in his 30+ years. In school journalists spent a lotmof time on ethics. That it covered a couple,of key poinrs very hard. One was that journalism has to be based in facts and truth. You are nothing without credibility, destroy it, and it's certain death. But that was the more minor part, it simply reenforced why being truthful was so important. It is a journalists job to find and share as accurate and truthful information as they could thay effected their audience. They play a crucial part of their audiences' information system. Keep them more informed and they can make better decisions. From timely traffic and weather to exposing political tom foolery. They are a crucial link in the information chain of a free and free market society. And people will pay nicely for such a quality information service so long as the info is accurate, timely, and relevant/useful. It was a point of pride for journalist yes to be first and fastest to new info but just as much so to be verified and accurate in that info. It was alos seen as a public service to be the ones who exspised the liars, cheaters, and scams from corporations to the govt. The service was a value bc it was truthfull! So they considered their job a public service that was responsible to the public. They had a duty to be accurate and truthfull to the facts as they could discover them. And they learned ways to investigate and also be aware of personal bias and mitigate to the extent practicable. Then it all changed. He explained it as this, but thisnis just one mans opinion. News papers played a dominant role in news, then radio and tv broadcast. For a time, news papers stayed dominant bc they had so much more info than you could cover in short 30 min to one hour news broadcasts. And words could focus on facts instead of worrying about a sound byte or video clip, though sometimies these were better for certsin info. The came the rise of 24 hour news stations. For a while news papers remained "the most trusted", but war broke out on who could get what out first. And that seemed to become more important than the accuracy papers were known for. It seemed tv and radio were more convenient, you can listen in the car, watch in the back ground while cooking dinner. With rise if the internet though paper made a come back, kind of. But it had to adopt the speed prefrence broadcast news had. Slowly this erroded accuracy and depth which takes time. Thise compromises, and the focus on the fight to stay reoevant (and not bankrupt) compromised old timey ethics and economics. Papers conglomorated, broadcast companies coalesced. It was all about keeping the business alive not the news or its responsibilities or ethics at all. Its not even journalism anymore. It think this had everything so compromised its no surprise politicians when dangling a lil access, and then parntnering up to be "the source for news" they accepted authority as a replacement of credibility but in doing so quit servingnthe public and became puppets of the elite.

[@X-A-Z]

"Gravitas". That's how I knew these people couldn't be trusted anymore. That's when I tuned out. Thanks, Rush.

[@brasilis57]

I see it differently. The news we can read/listen to are very important. There are trustworthy news, and no so trustworthy news. We have to, always, consider the source. My husband spends this mornings reading the news from different sources, like The New York Times, our local news, Politico, etc. I read those and also news from the country I came from. Then we discuss some if the things we find the most interesting (and believe me, I learned a lot from American culture just reading Dear Abby!). Perhaps one of the problems is that the internet changed how we consume information. We don't have the patience to read through an entire article with more than 2 paragraphs. We spend too much time watching youtube or tiktok videos about the 5 best lipstick color for your skin tone, or what's happening in Aaron Rodgers life (???!!!why???), or stupidest way to jump from your roof. A good press informs people about medical treatments, about how to buy a house, about the wonders of the universe. It can empowers people to fight for their rights, even hasten the fall of dictatorships, like it did in my former country. So I think the main issue is us, what we read, where we read it, how much we read, and how much we keep our minds open. "The mind is like a parachute. It works only when it opens".

[@notthefbi7932]

I trust whatever media my government tells me trust 😉 There's no such thing as unbiased news anymore 😥

[@hard2getitrightagain314]

The"Trust" should never have existed in the first place. Skepticism is the order of the day in the preservation of liberty. Trust but verify!

[@uncaboat2399]

Verify first as the "Purveyors of Truth" have become untrustworthy.

[@normhagen1913]

To be fair I would say the media was somewhat objective until Vietnam. That was the real turning point as the media went all in on getting the messages they wanted out above the facts

[@kenrichter4553]

Because they are giving opinions and political bias instead of the facts, just tell me the story I can put my bias into the occasion

[@Burnlit1337]

When a show calling themselves 60 Minutes gets whittle down to just 20 to even 10 minutes, their content is just bunch of useless ad fillers

[@davidvavra9113]

Because they're pretty much Tokyo Rose without the music.

[@mr.unknown11ભરવાડ11]

Here in India, Media channels are fully funded through tge rulling party advertisements and cannot survive without that.😂

[@derekwildstar2112]

Makes me miss the days of Walter Cronkite.

[@overtonpendulum2071]

Oy Gevalt.

[@reyray7184]

Smallhats are behind it...

[@hughjass1044]

We have choice now.

[@brucek66]

Not messy - necessary

[@justinzago1536]

Gone are the days of Walter Cronkite type reporting. Sad...

[@genebaker6964]

He doesn't even bother to support what he says with examples. There isn't any need to do so. I haven't watched the mainstream media for years now. I'm better informed than my sister and brother in law who have limited access to the internet and just watch TV.

[@jessebell1930]

Personally I cannot understand why ANYONE watches the news these last 10 years. Like university it just makes you dumber.

[@ctreid87]

Beard day!

[@LordReginaldMeowmont]

You can thank Reagan for getting rid of the law that required them to tell the facts.

[@JacobAnawalt]

Operation mockingbird didn’t help

[@DADSGETNDOWN]

So now X and the like are now going to have media passes and such? Be out there interviewing and so on ?

[@vovochen]

It's stupid tho. You've gone from truthful sources willfully lieng sometimes to know-nothings online who sometimes lie but dont really speak truth often.