Blazing Paddles - A Pickleball Podcast

Why We Don't Trust The Media

December 13, 2021 John Reaves Whitaker / Matt Moseley Season 2 Episode 25
Blazing Paddles - A Pickleball Podcast
Why We Don't Trust The Media
Show Notes

Do I dare say it? "Fake News"? It's a term forever tied to our 45th President but it's not a novel concept. There has been a growing distrust of the media that you can trace back to 1972 when you had military leaders actively accusing the venerable Walter Cronkite of biased journalism that undermined the American conflict in Vietnam. 

Let's be honest, it goes back even further - one of the more iconic photos of the 20th century is Harry Truman holding up the headlines of the Daily Chicago Tribune which proclaimed "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN".

As long as humans are....human (?) we will have biases that leak into our every being - imagine being a talking head with a vested interest in one side of the story and being tasked with proclaiming the inherent goodness of the other side. Yes it's different for professional journalists, but therein lies a big part of the problem. "Journalists" are a dying breed. 

Join me and media watchdog Matt Moseley as we discuss the very real problem of a corrupt media.

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