Hello, everybody and welcome back to Cash's Corner. If you can believe it, we're already at episode 10, the last episode of season one.

And Jan and I were thinking, what are we going to talk about today

what did we come up with i mean it's incredible it's actually episode 10 and i feel like we were just

kind of getting warmed up here so i was looking at this recent gallop poll which is kind of reminded me

of the you know basically sorry state of media today. The numbers, I have them right here.

I mean, in 2020, there was an 18% confidence in television media,

24% confidence in newspapers, and by 2021, that's actually gone down to 16% and 21%.

These are kind of some of the lowest numbers that have ever existed for media.

And I think that's just a national tragedy in so many ways because the media is supposed to educate

the American public about what's going on in its government. Back in 2015, I remember kind of sitting in the Epoch Times newsroom and just being stunned

at how similar the headlines would be across multiple media around something that was happening

with the Trump campaign. The thing that I remember really distinctly is I think what it was perhaps Scott Adams

that actually dubbed it the fine people hoax.

When this whole, you know, the Charlottesville tragedy happened, there was this narrative

that came out that said that President Trump had said there were fine people on both

sides, the protesters and the white supremacists.

Now, I'm glad you brought this up because it's the best example of something that certain

components of the media wanted to be true, and they intentionally chopped up the quote

to make sure it met a media narrative and that they wanted to be true and turned out to be

false.

That were very fine people, on both sides.

You had people in that group, excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did.

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