The number of Americans who say that they have NO trust AT ALL in mass media has hit an all-time high, while the number of Americans who say that they trust the media is at an all-time low. The mass media of today has absolutely no credibility, and they don’t seem to care, either. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://www.mediaite.com/news/americans-with-no-trust-in-the-mass-media-hits-all-time-high-in-latest-gallup-poll/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. The number of Americans who say that they have no trust, zero, zero trust at all in mass media has hit an all time high while the number of Americans who say that they trust the media is an all time low. And you know what? The mass media doesn't seem to care. They're just whistling through the graveyard aren't they? That's what amazes me is the arrogance. The absolute arrogance of mass media to say, so what? We don't care. Fox is gonna say, so what? If they don't like it, they go to turn to the other channel. MSNBC, CNN, so what? We don't care that trust in media is at an all time low to where people have zero, zero trust in what the media is saying. Yeah. More than a third of the country right now says, no, the mass media, newspapers, cable news, it's lies. It's nonstop lies. 40% of the country is saying that. And here's the thing, what's funny about this is CNN was recently given, obviously when they changed leadership and they got rid of Cuomo because of what they were having him do with his brother, all that, CNN had the opportunity to do the right thing. To finally get back on track. And then of course, Ukraine, Israel. So they, oh, well, we gotta bring out our generals. We gotta bring out our defense contractors. Not to tell 'em not to report the news, but to report propaganda. Yeah. So they immediately went right back into that cycle where they lost all their trust, which was back in 2004 or even before that, pushing the Iraq war. They fall into these same traps because at the end of the day, for them, it's not about telling the truth. It's about telling enough of a story to sell some advertisements. That's what it is. You know, of course, I was a journalism major, a news editing major at University of Florida and it's interesting, between 1972 and 1997 when I was in school there, or part of those years anyway, the trust level was 72 to 75%. How does it possibly fall to where it is right now, 27%? How do you get there? I don't know. But to me, you have, it's this arrogance. The arrogance is just phenomenal. It is, well, we own the house. We're gonna do what we want to do. It's, we recognize it's not news, it's propaganda, it's entertainment. We know it's not news. But it's almost like they don't think it through and say, okay, where does this leave journalism? Who the hell wants to be a journalist nowadays? I mean, really, who the hell wants to say, I'm gonna go to school? Because first of all, any type of investigative journalism is over. You got the Lever. We talk about the Lever all the time. That's real journalism. But that's so rare. There's some other organizations. The Intercept is a good one. Intercept is a great example. But the fact that we can list all of them On one hand Yeah. Shows us that the whole thing is essentially dead. Yeah. That's where we go to for our stories and it's just good stuff because they're real journalists really working. But to say a kid coming outta school right now, say, really, what an honorable profession. I really wanna be a journalist. You wanna be a pimp. That's what you wanna be. If you wanna move into a journal, you wanna be a pimp for some corporate entity. That's all it is. You want your face on the news, and you get to be one of those smiling personalities and sipping coffee with Kathie Lee Gifford. That's what you want. That's what people think of journalism these days. Well, journalists, people actually think, what is that thing called, The View with Joy Behar? They think of that as journal. They think that's journalism. I mean, you got five crazy women talking about crazy nonsense. That's journalism in their mind. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fky661_OsvM