Tuesday, October 29, 2024

The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media

Thanks 'MF' - Bezos left it too late (deliberately I presume?):


Washington Post (WaPo)

The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media

A note from our owner.

By Jeff Bezos
October 28, 2024 at 7:26 p.m. EDT

Jeff Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post.


In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.



Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.


Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.


Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right. By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it’s a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy.


I would also like to be clear that no quid pro quo of any kind is at work here. Neither campaign nor candidate was consulted or informed at any level or in any way about this decision. It was made entirely internally. Dave Limp, the chief executive of one of my companies, Blue Origin, met with former president Donald Trump on the day of our announcement. I sighed when I found out, because I knew it would provide ammunition to those who would like to frame this as anything other than a principled decision. But the fact is, I didn’t know about the meeting beforehand. Even Limp didn’t know about it in advance; the meeting was scheduled quickly that morning. There is no connection between it and our decision on presidential endorsements, and any suggestion otherwise is false.


When it comes to the appearance of conflict, I am not an ideal owner of The Post. Every day, somewhere, some Amazon executive or Blue Origin executive or someone from the other philanthropies and companies I own or invest in is meeting with government officials. I once wrote that The Post is a “complexifier” for me. It is, but it turns out I’m also a complexifier for The Post.



You can see my wealth and business interests as a bulwark against intimidation, or you can see them as a web of conflicting interests. Only my own principles can tip the balance from one to the other. I assure you that my views here are, in fact, principled, and I believe my track record as owner of The Post since 2013 backs this up. You are of course free to make your own determination, but I challenge you to find one instance in those 11 years where I have prevailed upon anyone at The Post in favor of my own interests. It hasn’t happened.


Lack of credibility isn’t unique to The Post. Our brethren newspapers have the same issue. And it’s a problem not only for media, but also for the nation. Many people are turning to off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions. The Washington Post and the New York Times win prizes, but increasingly we talk only to a certain elite. More and more, we talk to ourselves. (It wasn’t always this way — in the 1990s we achieved 80 percent household penetration in the D.C. metro area.)


While I do not and will not push my personal interest, I will also not allow this paper to stay on autopilot and fade into irrelevance — overtaken by unresearched podcasts and social media barbs — not without a fight. It’s too important. The stakes are too high. Now more than ever the world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice, and where better for that voice to originate than the capital city of the most important country in the world? To win this fight, we will have to exercise new muscles. Some changes will be a return to the past, and some will be new inventions. Criticism will be part and parcel of anything new, of course. This is the way of the world. None of this will be easy, but it will be worth it. I am so grateful to be part of this endeavor. Many of the finest journalists you’ll find anywhere work at The Washington Post, and they work painstakingly every day to get to the truth. They deserve to be believed.


13 comments:

  1. They don't trust the News media, but they believe the Ginger Man who accuses Haitians of eating dogs... I guess Chinamen may be his next target.

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    1. Yr guess?

      Wakakakaka… more foul than the gaseous of the cesspool!

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  2. https://rumble.com/v1j541s-q-the-plan-to-save-the-world.html

    I think I had shared the video, The Plan To Save The World, in one of your earlier post before. The video provides a good sypnosis of what is going on and is going to happened. It first came in 2018, I think. It was so long ago and I don't really keep track of the exact detail. In any case, the original version in youtube long being removed from appearing in any legitimate search now. It is being archived and backup into other available platform by the anons on their own initiative. Search using the original creator, Joe M, no longer return any channel by that name, even in Rumble, just in the title by other channels.

    There is a plan, that involved the US Military, not sure which or how, those are under the fog of war.

    Everything was about timing, including this op-ed by Jeff Bezos. Looks like in this instant, JB had this role to play at this particular moment.

    I suspect JB is a high-level captive player from the vast kabal side and had to play this role according to the term of offer with the whitehat in exchange for his whatever crimes. In this case, he probably plead guilty in behind the scene takedown/military tribunal back in DJT 1.0. Even that, it was speculated he will still be sentenced for his crimes but spare his life and play a role in the public space as Amazon, WaPo etc head and whatever. Whether he will disappear from public life or whatever, I don't know, the oft-repeated phrase is applicable, we'll find out.

    In short, my guess is, he did not left it late but had to follow a script.

    Please note, the whitehat do not micro-control every outcome, probably certain major players and outcome, principally based on game theory, a complex one.

    The link to channel that posted the video that i attached at the top has other videos as well. You can check them out yourselves in your convenience.

    I will end this comment with another video from the same creator, Joe M, entitled Killing The Mockingbird. Apparently, the MSM is the final jigsaw to be taken down, apart from Israel, after the general population is awakened. This MSM is not limited to US, but worldwide, with the likes of Reuter, APNews, BBC, etc

    https://rumble.com/v1kiau3-q-killing-the-mockingbird.html

    p/s I was a bit amused when you posted MM article about the Don (N4z1) and Amma (job). Either MM is a captive MSM in MY or they really are part of the woke media of MY. Whether all editorial team and MY MSM are captive, I don't know. But those insights here in MY are for those who are aware...and I have come to the realization that it is not for me to try to post and share anything in the hidden info and real war amongst friends and peers, because it does not work. The main reason why people are waking up, especially in America, is because the situations, such as economy, financial, job security, etc, being amplified through pain of losses to the point people have to experience it for themselves, every classes, even the rick, like in New York through their Marxist-like laws and regulations. People in Canada, Europe like Germany, France, Sweden, etc experiencing equally bad situation.

    pp/s sorry for the long p/s, just that years of following a bit hard to distill succintly. We in MY have to wait our turn after they sort the US first before the rest of the world through even things BRICS...

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  3. I can only make speculative guess based on the years of following others who are much insightful of the happening. All these was based on the ethos, where we go one, we go all, shortened to wwg1wga

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  4. Trump is playing a role, albeit a prominent one. Elon Musk is also playing another role. Just like Obama, Nancy Pelosi and etc are now have to their role on the board, as well as all the mid and low level player. Not sure how many hidden assets have sucked out into the open, but all the crazies like dchool shooting, etc were speculated to be an attempt to draw out the hidden mkultra asset.

    In other speculation, the whole drama will continue to play on even when DJT had left the scene for 30, 50, even after 75 years before things can come to some lind of worthwhile living on earth. I myself could not relate to that but had come to let it go and let it be...

    Cheers and regards.

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  5. Let's see what'll happen...

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    https://t.me/professor_patriot_official/27588

    Update to my post about CNN eating their own. Pretty soon there won't be anyone working there because they had to fire them all.πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚. I love it when a plan comes together 😁

    https://fxtwitter.com/brianstelter/status/1851101560455180699?s=09

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  6. Look like member of the epstein-still-not-officially-put-out-list are taking their own initiative of letting the world know who they are, one at a time ;-)

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    https://t.me/professor_patriot_official/27605

    https://fxtwitter.com/harris_wins/status/1851063996075639128?s=46&t=FYYMuEruimg461CBcJCgAQ

    Will Ferrell announces he is a Diddler.

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  7. NYC Mayor, Eric Adams. His current term in office tells a story of playing a role, to the point he was indicted for corruption charges that implicated one of his appointee, I think, but before the charges there were policies that were not agreeable to the Ds agenda...just for info in the general arc of the infowar, the "operation overlord" of our lifetime, even though you are not privy nor fully aware of the specfic players and details.

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    https://t.me/SGTnewsNetwork/78678

    πŸ”₯NY Mayor Adams obliterates the media:

    "Stop asking silly questions like about if Trump is a fascist or HitIer.. It gives you headlines and clicks, but it is not what Americans are dealing with."
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  8. Entry on Eric Adams in wikipedia provide a snapshot

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams

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  9. Pope Francis did made similar remark against the mafia and organized crimes in general some months ago this year.

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    https://t.me/WeTheMedia/110857

    Huge News From Trump:

    “I'm announcing that for the first time under my administration, we will be seizing the assets of the criminal gangs and drug cartels, and we'll use those assets to create a compensation fund to provide restitution for the victims of migrant crime."

    "The government will help in the restoration. The government will help in the restitution, but something has to be done, and we're gonna get it done."

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  10. Addendum:

    Back in many years when the anons were becoming a force of their own under DJT1.0 or just around the 2020 election, there was a realization that the D party cannot be saved under the current form, the net effect was worldwide...what do you think barack and speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi were doing here in KL? NP is a "capo" on her own right...BO? Well, that one have to check with Jibby. Hence the ops to take down the D party as well and reconstitute it in the future.

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  11. Fyi.

    https://open.substack.com/pub/read/p/jeff-bezos-has-a-business-problem?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=27ocwo

    "...The media ecosystem is in crisis because social media has a mental illness and traditional media has a physical illness...."

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  12. In case you are not aware, madani is poking and pushing mydigitalid to the masses, first with the myjpj app, now with mytnb. The on street chatter is, why should hv mydigitalid for an app that anyone can pay their bill from any payment source?

    Is he to satisfied his lizard overlord for the global woketardiness of esg, cashless society as epitome by melaka state gov going full mental on being fully cashless...there are implication that money is in control by whoever control the server, the wireless, as exemplify by the Canadian truckers protests where fund received was summarily frozen and taken by trudeau. What is wrong with using cash? How do we even know that the noose is being tightened on us by the lizard people? Merdeka konon, dalam penjara halimuman pun tak sedar...

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