If you ask the average American if the media is biased, and I'm talking about newspapers, it's likely you'll get a high percentage of affirmative answers. It's the general concensus.
If you follow that up with a request for specific examples, I believe most would struggle to give concrete answers. They might give an example of a story when they were personally involved - often those who become sources for stories feel this way. It's understandable.
In general, it is a phenomenon we in the business simply must deal with. Most readers are skeptics.
Should readers trust the media more? That's debatable.
Should readers respect the media - and view it as one source of information? I firmly believe they should.
And all consumers of information, from the media and all other sources, should forever remain skeptics.
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