In Journalism We Trust

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🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Americans used to believe that news anchors were basically reporting the truth. But in recent years, trust in journalism has largely evaporated. And that’s not an accident as the news media have been weaponized. So what can journalists do to regain the public trust?

Original Air Date: June 15, 2024

Interviews In This Hour:
Journalist Ezra Klein on podcasting, pundits and when to take yourself out of the news — Reclaiming journalism in a fast-changing media landscape — How a hyperlocal newsletter is redefining the ‘news’

Guests:
Ezra Klein, Deborah Blum, Rob Gurwitt

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0:00.0	Americans used to trust journalists.
0:07.6	To assume news anchors were basically reporting the truth
0:11.3	and that the day's headlines were safe to believe.
0:16.4	But over the past decade, trust in the news media has largely evaporated.
0:21.5	And that is not an accident.
0:24.5	I'm Anne's train champs.
0:25.8	Today, on to the best of our knowledge, we're tackling the hard problem of trust in journalism.
0:30.9	How and why it eroded and whether it can be regained.
0:34.8	Because we could all use a media environment with less spin and more truth.
0:40.0	Don't you think?
0:41.6	Keep listening.
0:45.5	From WPR.
0:49.9	It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs.
0:57.6	When I was growing up, everybody in America watched the evening news. This was the 1960s.
1:03.7	The most popular news anchor of the day was Walter Cronkite.
1:07.3	This is the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.
1:11.6	Good evening.
1:12.9	Sometimes called the most trusted man in America.
1:17.6	Cronkite's Vietnam report, take four.
1:21.5	In 1968, Walter Cronkite went on a reporting trip to Vietnam.
1:28.0	Lunar New Year's, Vietnam and North Vietnamese regular forces struck across the entire link of South Vietnam.
1:36.6	When he came back, he declared, out loud, on the nightly news, that America's war was going nowhere.
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