Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?

Collages by Mark Harris. Source images: Silhouette © Magalí Druscovich/Reuters/Redux; building © David Zanzinger/Alamy; radio dial and children watching television © Classic Stock/Alamy; newsboy courtesy Lewis Wickes Hine, Library of Congress; paper press © Luisa Fumi/Alamy; front page of the New York Times, July 21, 1969 © magnez2/iStock; printing press, Times of London, 1827 © Lebrecht Alamy; microphone © Olga Yastremska/Alamy  Anatomy of a credibility crisis by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani The challenges facing the establishment media are more severe today than ever before. Trust in the press is at a record low, with only a quarter of Americans aged eighteen to twenty-nine expressing confidence in media organizations. Jobs … Continue reading Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?