#media-trust

#media-trust

If you were to invent a scandal expressly to convince conspiracy theorists they were right all along, the story of the Afghan superinjunction would be hard to beat. A secret back door into Britain through which thousands of immigrants were brought, under cover of a draconian legal gagging order that helpfully also concealed an act of gross incompetence by the British state? It's a rightwing agitator's dream.

The increased trust among Republicans in mainstream news could signal a slow shift, revealing that not all factors affecting media perception are permanent.

Well, it's not a threat, that's a penalty that is in the Communications Act, and if you don't... trust in the national mainstream media is at an absolute low... the agenda that I'm trying to run at the FCC is to empower those actual local television stations to serve the public interest.