Editorial of April 10, 2025
Can AI Be Impartial When the National News Media Isn’t?
It’s no secret that Americans’ trust in today’s national news media has dropped significantly in recent years. According to a Gallup Blog written by Megan Brenan and Lydia Saad, published on February 27 of this year, Americans’ trust in the mass media is at its lowest point in more than five decades (https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/657239/five-key-insights-americans-views-news-media.aspx).
The authors state that about one third of U.S. adults say they have no trust at all in the mass media, and generational patterns don’t bode well for media trust moving forward. In fact, Gallup found that national confidence in newspaper and television news ranks slightly higher than our confidence in Congress, which is at the very bottom of the list. Print news professions rank slightly higher in perceived honesty and ethics than the television media, but that’s not saying much. Studies released by the Pew Research Center and Reuters Institute are in agreement that Americans lack confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public.
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