Confidence In Media Plummets

By Paul Homewood

Guido has news of a very interesting recent poll:

The Coronavirus crisis has driven gains in confidence in almost all UK institutions, except for one. A new survey from Kekst CNC (which tracks public opinion in the UK, USA, Germany and Sweden) has found the British public has increased confidence in Government, the health service, food retailers, and even financial services. The media, however, is the only institution polled in the UK that saw a drop in confidence – people are losing confidence in the likes of Peston and Piers even whilst they are gaining viewers. The joint-largest drop of all four countries…

https://order-order.com/2020/04/14/media-confidence-meltdown/

The details of the poll by Kekst is here, and below is the background to that particular chart:

It tends to back up other polls in the US, which confirm record levels of support for Trump, but at the same time rock bottom confidence in the media.

In my opinion, this poll is part of a much more entrenched loss of trust in the media in the UK. We have already seen how badly the broadcast media, trapped in their metropolitan bubble, lost touch with what most of the country were thinking about Brexit and December’s general election.

As for the press, many now realise that newspapers are more interested in hysterical headlines than facts, and that most reporters no longer seem to have the skills required of proper journalism, to check facts, investigate and never trust what you have been told. Instead, far too many journalists have never had the proper grounding needed to do their job properly, and are too eager to cut and paste whatever fits their world view.

Maybe this has ever been so, but nowadays we have the internet. Although there is an awful lot of fake news out there, it is not difficult to get to the facts. And far too often, these facts show just how badly the press are doing in reporting objectively.