Those Stubborn Facts: The News Media’s Priorities

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Number of Google News search results today for “Michael Sussmann trial” (regarding misinformation and the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign): 16,300

 

Number of Google News search results today for “Johnny Depp trial”: 1.92 million

Those Stubborn Facts: U.S. Journalism Gets a Global Failing Grade, Too

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fake news, journalism, Mainstream Media, news, news media, Those Stubborn Facts

Number of countries examined in Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism survey: 46

Overall level of “trust in the news”, 2021: 44 percent

Change from 2020: +8 percentage points

Level of “trust in the news” in the U.S., 2021: 29 percent

Change from 2020: None

U.S. journalism’s rank in trustworthiness: 46^th

(Sources: “Executive Summary and Key Findings of the 2021 Report,” Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, June, 2021, pp. 9 ff, The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021 (ox.ac.uk))