Columnist Charles Blow noted today that a Knight Foundation/Gallup study reported that Americans who said they have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the media fell from 54% (which is already low) in 2003 to 32% in 2016. It then rebounded (?) to 41% in 2017. I’m guessing that it is lower today.
Howeve, that is not the worst news. A poll last year found that 43% of Republicans agree with this statement: “The president should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior.”
Are our schools still teaching civics? Do our fellow Americans even begin to understand democracy and its dependence on a free and independent press? I think we are in deep trouble, and I don’t see how we get out of it.
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