Trust in journalists at an epic low among adults

Thursday, February 12, 2026

% of Americans who have a great deal of confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public All US adults: 6% Republicans: 2% Democrats: 9%

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Will they EVER reach a point where they recognize and acknowledge the massive problem they have and engage in serious introspection as how to begin to repair the damage?

#1 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-12 05:12 PM | Reply

"Will they EVER reach a point where they recognize and acknowledge the massive problem they have and engage in serious introspection as how to begin to repair the damage?"
~Bellringer

What a coincidence.

That's the same stuff people say about you.

#2 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-12 05:19 PM | Reply

Touche

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-12 05:27 PM | Reply

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
--Hannah Arendt

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-12 05:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
--Hannah Arendt

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-12 05:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.
--Hannah Arendt

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-12 05:33 PM | Reply

I mean, let's be serious for a moment: you are a contributor to this.

You claim all the time this is "100% self inflicted", but the truth of the matter is, it takes people like you to either come into a chat room and lie purposely, or to amplify other people's lies with your posts, links, and water-carrying.

A sizable part of the mistrust was part of your goal. Take credit where credit is due. Be a Proud Boy!

#7 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-12 05:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"You claim all the time this is "100% self inflicted""

It is. It's been a trend going back decades.

#8 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-12 05:52 PM | Reply

how to begin to repair the damage?
#1 | Posted by BellRinger

And just how should they do that?
If you can't say, then why ask?

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-12 05:52 PM | Reply

It's been a trend going back decades.
#8 | Posted by BellRinger

Thanks, Capitalism!

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-12 05:56 PM | Reply

Causing the public not to trust the Media is Fascism 101, and destroying actual journalism in the Press has been a Project25 Republican/Trump Media success... the State becomes the only News.

Journalism has been devalued not only by insipid commercial advertising, but also now by Paywalls and shlock faux-journalism.

It's a Gangster Cult's Paradise.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-12 05:57 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

It's been a trend going back decades.
#8 | Posted by BellRinger

Going back to the decade Rupert Murdoch started Fox News?

Thanks, Capitalism!

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-12 05:57 PM | Reply

Republican Billionaires: *Buy out MSM*

Jeff: "Will they EVER reach a point where they recognize and acknowledge the massive problem they have and engage in serious introspection as how to begin to repair the damage?"

IRONY

#13 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-02-12 06:41 PM | Reply

Telecommunications Act of 1996.

The radio program this past Saturday spoke about this Act. The host's guest was a radio DJ. He said, music died. Local radio would find local talent. Competition was fierce, but real music talent was found.

Today, he said it's dead.

The consolidation of the industry made media ownership a monopoly.

Did it affect politics?

#14 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-02-12 08:18 PM | Reply

Did it affect politics?
#14 | Posted by Petrous

Rush Limbaugh show says yes.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-12 08:56 PM | Reply

Jeff remains a ----

#16 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-12 09:09 PM | Reply

"It's been a trend going back decades."

And you've played a part in it. Every time you've posted something and purposely left out the salient facts.

#17 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-12 10:02 PM | Reply

" And you've played a part in it. Every time you've posted something and purposely left out the salient facts.

#17 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2026-02-12 10:02 PM | FLAG: "

What salient facts have been left out of this thread?

#18 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-13 11:54 AM | Reply

What salient facts have been left out of this thread?
#18 | Posted by BellRinger

There's salient facts?
List them.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 12:13 PM | Reply

"What salient facts have been left out of this thread?"

Wait...so now you're going to pretend you don't do that?!?

#20 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-13 12:20 PM | Reply

Causes of the lowering of trust in the media

1. Rise of Fox News and its rightwing propaganda
2. Social Media
3. Rise of President Piggy and his direct assault on journalism
4. Consolidation of news companies
5. Prioritization of profit by news organizations
6. Assault on the fact-based reality by the right wing
7. The inability of left leaning media organizations to counter right wing lies and misinformation
8. Conservative assault on the mythological "woke" agenda
9. Promotion of cancel culture by the right wing (and admittedly to a lesser extent the left)
10. Killing of the fairness doctrine
11. Undermining of the FCC by conservatives in the name of the "free market"

these are just a few off the top of my head.

#21 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-13 12:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

One of the core articles of faith of the lib-owning wing of MAGA (long, long before Trump ever rode down the escalator) has been that the "mainstream media" is an irredeemable swamp of far-left indoctrination and communist propaganda. In this telling, the press's hypnotic reach is so total, so omnipresent, that it can bend an entire society to a Maoist agenda unless it is smashed, regulated, or placed under political supervision.

Give me a break.

The reality is that Trump and his allies now own, dominate, or effectively control more media outlets (and command more eyeballs) than any of the supposed liberal demons the right has been screaming about for decades. CNN, now the Bothsides Network in all but name, contorts itself daily to platform and normalize the administration's endless torrent of lies. CBS News has drifted into Fox Lite, carefully sanding off anything that might offend the White House. 60 Minutes is increasingly indistinguishable from a celebrity profile factory. And The Washington Post continues its steady slide into hushed irrelevance as Jeff Bezos works overtime to avoid becoming Trump's next target.

#22 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-13 12:30 PM | Reply

This isn't a left-wing media ecosystem. It's a timid, commercial, risk-averse one, terrified of power, addicted to access, and structurally incapable of confronting an authoritarian movement that punishes dissent.

Liberal billionaires ask me all the time what needs to be done to "counter Fox." My answer never changes: sustained, serious investment in competing mainstream media over time ... not a liberal mirror image of Fox, not a rage-bait echo chamber, but institutions with reach, credibility, and the spine to tell the truth even when it costs them something.

You don't beat propaganda with propaganda.

You beat it by building media that actually deserves the public's trust and then funding it like democracy depends on it.

#23 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-13 12:31 PM | Reply

" Wait...so now you're going to pretend you don't do that?!?

#20 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2026-02-13 12:20 PM | FLAG: "

Why don't you just answer my question.

" #21 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2026-02-13 12:25 PM | FLAG: "

You sound exactly like anyone in the media when asked why their reputation is in the dumpster. "It's everybody else's fault. We are perfect at what we do."

#24 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-13 01:21 PM | Reply

... % of Americans who have a great deal of confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public All US adults: 6% Republicans: 2% Democrats: 9% ...

From the Pew Research article link in the cited article ...

www.pewresearch.org

...A majority of Americans (57%) express low confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis from the Pew-Knight Initiative.

This includes 40% who say they have not too much confidence and 17% who say they have none at all. By comparison, 43% of adults say they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in journalists. ...

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 01:21 PM | Reply

"It's everybody else's fault. We are perfect at what we do."

Strawman Alert!

#26 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-13 01:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

@#25 ... By comparison, 43% of adults say they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in journalists. ... ...

While I'd prefer to see that percentage higher, I also think it paints a better picture than the cited X-post that cherry picks data.

#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 01:37 PM | Reply

" "It's everybody else's fault. We are perfect at what we do."

Strawman Alert!

#26 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2026-02-13 01:28 PM | REPLY"

Did you read Twoothy's post? Not one point places any blame on members of the MSM for their cratering reputation.

#28 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-13 01:47 PM | Reply

"Not one point places any blame on members of the MSM for their cratering reputation."

Which members should we be blaming?

Case in point:
Sinclair Broadcast Group Faces Backlash Over Scripted Promos: 'This Is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy'
variety.com

Sinclair had all their news readers read the same propaganda statement back in 2018.
The blame for that does not go to "members of the MSM."
It resides with Sinclair.
And you're weaseling around that fact.

Tell us which "members of the MSM" are we not holding accountable?
It gives us names, or it shuts its mouth.

#29 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 01:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Trust in vaccines seems to be at a low point too.

Oddly the vaccines haven't changed. The science hasn't changed. No new studies show any issues.

I wonder why people distrust them so much now?

What has changed?

Oh right, MAGA attacking vaccines and sowing doubt in the country.

So Jeff, does this means Vaccines are bad now too? Must be the vaccines fault, right?

#30 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-02-13 02:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

" does this means Vaccines are bad now too? Must be the vaccines fault, right?

#30 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2026-02-13 02:04 PM | REPLY"

Did you take a class on how to come up with absurd and ridiculous false equivalencies?

#31 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-13 02:06 PM | Reply

Did you read Twoothy's post? Not one point places any blame on members of the MSM for their cratering reputation.

#28 | Posted by BellRinger

Liar

1. Rise of Fox News and its rightwing propaganda (Fox News is MSM)
2. Social Media (MSM participates in social media)
3. Rise of President Piggy and his direct assault on journalism
4. Consolidation of news companies (Consolidation of MSM has impacted perception of MSM)
5. Prioritization of profit by news organizations (news organizations IS MSM)
6. Assault on the fact-based reality by the right wing
7. The inability of left leaning media organizations to counter right wing lies and misinformation (Failure of left leaning MSM)
8. Conservative assault on the mythological "woke" agenda
9. Promotion of cancel culture by the right wing (and admittedly to a lesser extent the left)
10. Killing of the fairness doctrine
11. Undermining of the FCC by conservatives in the name of the "free market"

So, 5 of the 11 points are, to one extent or another, criticisms and placing blame on MSM

You're just a liar, like always.

#32 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-13 02:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"Not one point places any blame on members of the MSM for their cratering reputation."

Like you've never put blame on the guy in your mirror?

Heck, you helped build the right wing of the current MSM structure. Take credit where credit is due.

#33 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-13 02:31 PM | Reply

Did you take a class on how to come up with absurd and ridiculous false equivalencies?

#31 | Posted by BellRinger

Actually, it is spot on.

Modern journalism is in a death spiral (or more accurately in the midst of a colossal upheaval.

Numerous market factors are reducing the income for news agencies undermining their ability to perform actual journalism.

A decades long propaganda effort and a constant spew of lies from Piggy on down to Jeffj are undermining the credibility of journalists

Modern news agencies are often forced to cater (to remain economically feasible) to the lowest common denominator for click bait or to express apparent fairness between reality and the right wing insanity (instead of just calling lies lies-or be criticized as biased) or switching to an editorial based news program

The fact of the matter is most legitimate news agencies are expressing reality and continue to report facts. It is the onslaught of lies from Piggy to Jeff that get a more and more fractured audience incapable of critical thinking that have caused the reputational damage

My biggest criticism of them is that they have not found a viable counter to the constant lies and misinformation and disinformation and lies and propaganda spewed at them on a minute by minute basis.

#34 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-13 02:39 PM | Reply

@#0 ... Trust in vaccines seems to be at a low point too.

Oddly the vaccines haven't changed. The science hasn't changed. No new studies show any issues. ...

That's a good observation.

It seems that misinformation spread on social media and some other places seem to have contributed to the lowering opinion of vaccines.

Along those lines ...

Social media now main source of news in US, research suggests (June 2025)
www.bbc.com

... Social media and video networks have become the main source of news in the US, overtaking traditional TV channels and news websites, research suggests.

More than half (54%) of people get news from networks like Facebook, X and YouTube - overtaking TV (50%) and news sites and apps (48%), according to the Reuters Institute.

"The rise of social media and personality-based news is not unique to the United States, but changes seem to be happening faster -- and with more impact -- than in other countries," a report found. ...

[emphasis mine]

#35 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 02:42 PM | Reply

A lot of this controversy regarding trust in journalism is based on the fact everyone is so damn thin skinned in the first place.

A few points....

1. There is nothing wrong with a network like CNN or Fox who have opinionated pundits who get air time. You can tell that's what they are and it's fair game. If you're too stupid to understand.....you're not important. Just go back to X and troll AI generated clips of stupid ---- all day.

2. A foundational trust still exists in the media and journalists. Despite what gets captured in polls or surveys.....right wing psychos "trust" what they see on CNN or NBC. They'll claim otherwise but they're full of ----. They're just thin skinned wimps who demand news be biased to what they want to hear....and then have the gall to complain about the very bias in media they prefer. To a lesser extent the same can be said for folks who whine all day about Fox News........while watching Fox News. ------ morons.

3. Grow the hell up and accept that the media and journalists are not all PBS non for profit holier than thou news services. They are for profit advertising revenue based business models. BTW, they were structured that way when Cronkite, Brinkley, etc....were doing the news.

4. Do I think we actually have a problem with trust and the media? I do. I don't have a solution for it except for whiners and complainers to read my 1-3 above over and over and grow the hell up.

#36 | Posted by eberly at 2026-02-13 02:44 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Just a fact or 2

Fox lied about the 2020 election being stolen including the Fulton Co. GA election office

Fox KNOWINGLY lied

Guiliani lost a liable suit to the tune of millions of dollars for workers at the Fulton Co. GA election office.

Fox had to pay 3/4 billion dollars to the voting machine company because of the lies

5+ years on President Piggy is raiding Fulton Co. election offices over those exact same lies.

Yet, here we are, those lies still get play, still are spewed by the right wing media apparatus

Yet all media are painted with this broad brush of disreputation.

Yet it is not the NBC or the NYT or CNN which is the root problem it is Fox and Piggy and the rest of the right wing media swamp

hey jeff have you read the National Review's take on Piggy's corruption?

It is like Piggy's corruption. yes both sides have a problem yet the right wing is FAR FAR FAR worse, by orders of magnitude

#37 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-13 02:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Jeff is a self-admitted troll that bemoans the loss of reputation by journalism

The hypocrisy (the lack of self-awareness) is something to behold if you think about it.

#38 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-13 02:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

" 7. The inability of left leaning media organizations to counter right wing lies and misinformation (Failure of left leaning MSM)"

This is the only point that can actually be construed as a criticism of those within the MSM. What's glaringly missing is any criticism of the biased way in which the MSM covers the news or their sharp drop in basic journalistic standards. The very things that have caused own ongoing erosion in trust.

#39 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-13 03:00 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

" #36 | POSTED BY EBERLY AT 2026-02-13 02:44 PM | FLAG: "

"If you don't trust the MSM then YOU are the problem" is an interesting take.

#40 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-13 03:03 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

" BTW, they were structured that way when Cronkite, Brinkley, etc....were doing the news."

No, they were not.

Back then, newsrooms were not expected to be profit centers.

#41 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-13 03:08 PM | Reply

What exactly don't you "trust"?

I can view any news report with skepticism. Consider that they are people reporting with what they have but since journalists nor any other members of the media understand much about business, politics, or anything else for that matter.....it's always taken with a grain of salt.

And where "you are the problem" is a deserving criticism for anybody who...

1. claims to value the truth
and
2. allows news to be spoon fed to them with no obligation to seek out the truth.

The "truth" is very goddam important to me. Therefore, I take the time to verify it. Sometimes I delegate to the willing dolts here dying to work for me whenever I ask.

#42 | Posted by eberly at 2026-02-13 03:10 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

"right wing psychos "trust" what they see on CNN or NBC. They'll claim otherwise but they're full of ----."

What about normal people. Can Obama buy beachfront property, while also believing Global Warming is real, or nah.

#43 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 03:11 PM | Reply

-Back then, newsrooms were not expected to be profit centers.

They managed it better back then and valued the public's perception of them.

They also had to worry about ratings.

I wasn't specifically referring to "newsrooms"....but the networks themselves.

#44 | Posted by eberly at 2026-02-13 03:12 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"What's glaringly missing is any criticism of the biased way in which the MSM covers the news or their sharp drop in basic journalistic standards."

This gets called out all the time.
You just ignore it because the bias is usually towards the right.

Bari Weiss and the embargoed 60 Minutes piece on Trump's Gulag, for example.
That was criticized extensively.
Just not by anyone you listen to.

#45 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 03:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

-What's glaringly missing is any criticism of the biased way in which the MSM covers the news

Rush Limbaugh used to rail on about this every day.

I would think the current crop of conservative pundits hammer away at this today.....or does Fox News sort of balance the books with regards to hypocrisy?

#46 | Posted by eberly at 2026-02-13 03:55 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

It is. It's been a trend going back decades.

#8 | Posted by BellRinger

Let me guess, it coincidentally goes back about as far as the fall of the Fairness Doctrine and the rise of fat tubs of traitorous s*&^ like Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin.

You're an idiot. I don't think there's a single topic that you're not entirely incapable of assessing accurately.

#47 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-13 04:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

#39 | Posted by BellRinger

The death of journalistic standards is due to

1. The death of the fairness doctrine-which allowed the propaganda of right-wing neo-fascists to be spewed endlessly.
2. Change in economic foundation of media organizations forcing the news arms of many outlets to become profit center, or the massive reduction in subscriptions to news entities or the atomization of the customer base due to the internet.
3. The dumbing down of the American populace.

The only blame that can be truly assigned to the journalists themselves is the inability to counter the lies, misinformation, disinformation and propaganda spewed by the right-wing media system enabled by online trolls.

There has ALWAYS been bias in the news. Journalists today have to fight a far more powerful anti-knowledge neo-fascist propaganda machine to get the attention of morons over the efforts of scum and trolls.

Journalists have a bias to reality.

Are they perfect? No, but the damage is cause infinitely more by the anti-reality neo fascists than any supposed left-wing bias.

#48 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-13 05:16 PM | Reply

Part of the problem is that right-wing propaganda has overtaken this country.

Serious public debates or discussions have to start from a place of constantly correcting the lies and misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and distortions that emanate from the right-wing swamp on a constant basis.

YES, the left has a similar yet INFINITELY small problem with this and I would argue that their "propaganda" is within what should be a normal public discourse.

What should be a public discourse on issues, a debate between liberal and conservative views has to start with and expend most of its energy on refuting the constant pile of BS coming from the right.

There are, without a doubt, legitimate positions that conservatives hold and can and should be honestly considered. But when the starting position for ANY topic is the lie of the day by President Piggy or the dishonest propaganda spewed by Fox or OANN or a host of right wing "influencers" combined with the confusion of "news" and "opinion" that is a recipe for disaster and the destruction of journalism.

At best left leaning news organizations must be louder to become part of the discourse, louder being more extreme or more "edgy" to get clicks.

It is difficult to have a public discourse when basic reality is not agreed upon. Right-wing media and the neo fascist republican party has successfully called into question actual reality (at least for a substantial portion of the populace).

And it is extremely corrosive. I have otherwise practical and intelligent people posting memes about celebrities eating ------- babies and when called out about it say "Maybe, anything is possible" No, it is not possible. When average Americans lack the critical thinking skills that is a problem.

#49 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-13 05:31 PM | Reply

TruthNLies,

Dude your whole diatribe is

"Americans are idiots, and ---- you, you piece of ----."

#50 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-13 06:13 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#49 ... It is difficult to have a public discourse when basic reality is not agreed upon. Right-wing media and the neo fascist republican party has successfully called into question actual reality (at least for a substantial portion of the populace). ...

Who was it during the first Trump term who said something along the lines that MAGA wanted to use ~alternative facts~ in the news reporting.

It seems like Republicans have bought into that alternative fact reporting, hook, line and sinker.

#51 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 06:22 PM | Reply

@#51

Found this ...

Alternative facts
en.wikipedia.org

... "Alternative facts" was a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance numbers at Donald Trump's first inauguration as President of the United States.

When pressed during the interview with Chuck Todd to explain why Spicer would "utter a provable falsehood", Conway stated that Spicer was giving "alternative facts". Todd responded, "Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods."[1]

Conway's use of the phrase "alternative facts" for demonstrable falsehoods was widely mocked on social media and sharply criticized by journalists and media organizations, including Dan Rather, Jill Abramson, and the Public Relations Society of America.

The phrase was extensively described as Orwellian, particularly in reference to the term doublethink. Within four days of the interview, sales of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four had increased 95-fold, which The New York Times and others attributed to Conway's use of the phrase, making it the number-one bestseller on Amazon.com.[2] ...

#52 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-13 06:24 PM | Reply

Thanks, Capitalism!

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-12 05:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'm sure someone in Cuba would let you sleep on their dirt floor really cheap.

#53 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-02-13 06:43 PM | Reply

I'm sure someone in Cuba would let you sleep on their dirt floor really cheap.
#53 | Posted by lfthndthrds

^
It's cute how you think a government enforced trade embargo is "Capitalism."

That's a Centrally Planned Economy, little one.
The Plan being: No Trade With Cuba.

#54 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 08:02 PM | Reply

Rupert Murdoch's fault. Seriously.

#55 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-02-13 09:26 PM | Reply

Bingo. Go snort some cyanide, lil' Jeffy.

#56 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-13 10:10 PM | Reply

Propaganda Werks.

#57 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-14 10:42 AM | Reply

Journalists have become left wing activists. People notice. The ones who have stayed true to their professional roots hav3 almost all gone independent.

#58 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-15 12:28 PM | Reply

" Propaganda Werks.

#57 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY AT 2026-02-14 10:42 AM | FLAG: "

As it pertains to the MSM propaganda doesn't work. People have spotted the propaganda and no longer trust the MSM. They did it to themselves.

#59 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-15 12:30 PM | Reply

Patricide Jeff's idols at Fox had to pay $787 million for repeating the brain dead-------------------'s big lie.

#60 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-15 12:36 PM | Reply

Journalists have become left wing activists.

Oh, absolutely!

David Ellison and Rupert Murdoch are flaming liberals.

Bari Weiss is a woke Libertard!

Sean Hannity was sued for spreading lies and FOX argued only idiots would believe him.

The Wall Street journal, Washington post, X ...

As a matter of fact, I dare you to name one leftwing source of media in America.

Not some obscure rag.

Mainstream media that's "left wing".

Name one.

I bet you can't. Or will simply refuse. Because they don't exist.

#61 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-15 12:43 PM | Reply

ABC
NBC
CBS
MS Now
CNN
NPR
pBS
NYT
WaPo
LAT
BBC
CNBC
New Yorker
Vogue
Vanity Fair
The View
Rolling Stone
Most print newspapers

*****

Academia
Hollywood
K-12
Teachers unions

Should I go on?

#62 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-15 12:57 PM | Reply

$787 million. Take the L, loser.

#63 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-15 01:00 PM | Reply

They did it to themselves.

#59 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Sure thing. I bet calling them the "enemies of the state" by the POTUS and his henchmen (Fingermen) had absolutely nothing to do with it.

...

Should I go on?

#62 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Oh please do enabler. Your "enemies list" means nothing. (Except how you think)

The more serious you think you are the dumber you look.

Your credibility is crap on this site.

The irony?

You are doing it to yourself.

#64 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-15 01:12 PM | Reply

"Vogue"

What lies has Vogue told us?

#65 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-15 01:19 PM | Reply

"Journalists have become left wing activists."

Think back to when journalists were embedded with US troops in Iraq.
Were those journalists right wing activists?

#66 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-15 01:21 PM | Reply

Should I go on?
#62 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

Which one of those were supposed to be leftwing media?

Fact is, you're so far off to the extreme right, any media source not parroting Trump verbatim is attacked by people like you as "left wing".

You're unable to differentiate between fact and fiction.

You've lost the ability to be objective.

#67 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-15 01:22 PM | Reply

The ones who have stayed true to their professional roots hav3 almost all gone independent.
#58 | Posted by BellRinger

Like the 25% of Washington Post journalists fired by Bezos?
Like the Bari Weiss takeover of CBS News?

#68 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-15 01:23 PM | Reply

" Oh please do enabler. Your "enemies list" means nothing. (Except how you think"

They are left wing propaganda outlets.

#69 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-15 01:24 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Should I go on?
#62 | Posted by BellRinger

I think you should.
You left out Boy Scouts of America, for example.

#70 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-15 01:24 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

They are left wing propaganda outlets.
#69 | Posted by BellRinger

Show us some of their alleged "propaganda."
I bet you can't.

#71 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-15 01:24 PM | Reply

"Journalists have become left wing activists."

Meanwhile the Piggy administration is staffed with Fox News hosts and Fox coordinates messaging with the WH

The level if ridiculousness in jeff's posts is beyond calculation.

#72 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-15 01:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

They are left wing propaganda outlets.
#69 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

None of them were.

They're simple news sources that you don't agree with 100% of the time.

Which is why a lot of "news" you post lately come from extreme rightwing sources on X.

#73 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-15 01:26 PM | Reply

As I posted way above, people live in 2 different worlds-the rightwing media swamp and reality

yes jeff, reality and thus "left wing" media is biased, to reality

#74 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-15 01:27 PM | Reply

I've always used this app to check news sources/sites

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Just type in a newspaper, news network etc. and it'll give a ranking on its integrity

#75 | Posted by shane at 2026-02-15 01:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

People have spotted the propaganda and no longer trust the MSM. They did it to themselves.

#59 | Posted by BellRinger

Then you could post some facts or strongly sourced conjecture to this as opposed to the sustained damage caused by the right wing media swamp that started with the death of the fairness doctrine and birthed by Rush Limbaugh and Fox news

Not individual acts of failed biased journalism, the sustained effort that was propaganda.

Because Fox News is the definition of propaganda.

#76 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-15 01:29 PM | Reply

@#76 ... Because Fox News is the definition of propaganda. ...

Not just FoxNews, but apparently most of the right-wing "news" media. They seem to deal in "alternative facts" which is another name for lies and propaganda.

#77 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-15 01:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Jeff forgot

The Catholic Church
Amway
YMCA
Most High School newspapers
ASPCA

and the local lemonade stand conglomerate

#78 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-15 01:41 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I'm a borderline Hall of Fame troll, Alexandrite. I easily elicit multiple responses with a single post. And it doesn't take any effort.
#27 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-06 05:42 PM

#79 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-15 01:44 PM | Reply

From the AP:

On Nov. 13, the week after the 2020 election, Ingraham, Carlson and Hannity got into a text message exchange in which they lambasted the news division. It began with Ingraham pointing out a tweet by correspondent Bryan Llenas, saying he had seen no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Pennsylvania. Carlson replied that Llenas had contacted him to apologize, then added "when has he ever reported' on anything."

Ingraham then names another colleague who indicated there was no fraud, with Hannity responding: "Guys I've been telling them for 4 years. News depart that breaks no news ever." In a subsequent Twitter message seconds later, Hannity says, "They hate hate hate all three of us." Ingraham responds she doesn't "want to be liked by them" and Carlson chimes in, "They're pathetic." The conversation continues with Hannity bemoaning the damage that has been done to the brand: "In one week and one debate they destroyed a brand that took 25 years to build and the damage is incalculable."

Another text conversation by the trio three days later had Ingraham telling her colleagues that her anger at the news channel was "pronounced," followed by an "lol." In response, Carlson attacked two Fox anchors: "It should be. We devote our lives to building an audience and they let Chris Wallace and Leland (expletive) Vittert wreck it. Too much." Wallace and Vittert have since left the network.

For TELLING THE TRUTH.

#80 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-15 02:18 PM | Reply

" Because Fox News is the definition of propaganda.

#76 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2026-02-15 01:29 PM | FLAG: "

Completely agree.

#81 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-15 02:57 PM | Reply

Trust in journalists at an epic low among adults

A meaningless headline & story.

Completely meaningless.

#82 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-15 03:59 PM | Reply

I wonder if bell boi can tell us which one of these headlines are fake news:

The Guardian: Authorities appeal for video footage as Nancy Guthrie search enters third week with no arrests

NPR: 'Major travel impacts' expected as winter storm watch issued for northern California

Reuters: Iran says potential energy, mining and aircraft deals on table in talks with US

NBC: Obama derides social media 'clown show' in first comments since Trump's racist video post

Axios: Rubio outlines MAGA's foreign policy doctrine in Munich

CNN: How the case against a Venezuelan man who was shot by an ICE agent fell apart

BBC: Eleven killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, rescuers say

WSJ: Farmers Are Aging. Their Kids Don't Want to Be in the Family Business.

KHOU: Farmers Are Aging. Their Kids Don't Want to Be in the Family Business.

CBS: DHS experiences partial shutdown, Don Lemon pleads not guilty in court and other news headlines

CBS: Hip-hop icon 2 Chainz, R&B singer Mya to headline Baltimore's CIAA events

CBS: Ben Shelton, Tommy Paul headline high-stakes night at Nexo Dallas Open

NYT: Why Nancy Guthrie's Disappearance Is Breaking Through the Noise

Well, bell boi?

Which one of those MSM headlines is a lie?

Which one of those MSM headlines is fake news?

#83 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-15 04:09 PM | Reply

Surprised the Drudge Retort is needed the way Drudge reports today.

law.stanford.edu

"The site was launched by Cadenhead around 10 years ago as a parody site to the conservative Drudge Report. Around 5 years ago, it became a social news site, where members can post links and comments"

It's more a mirror than a parody.

#84 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-02-15 04:26 PM | Reply

"Fox News is the definition of propaganda."

While they were laughing at the gullibility of their viewers behind their backs.

#85 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-15 05:43 PM | Reply