Why The Mainstream Media Has Lost Our Trust -- Mo News Conversation

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Only one out of three Americans now trust the news media, putting the US in last place among developed countries according to a new poll. What went wrong, how bad has it gotten and what can be done to reestablish trust between the mainstream media and consumers? Steve Krakauer has worked at multiple networks and is now an independent journalist. He joins Mosheh to discuss his new book, “Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People” in our latest episode. We discuss a number of recent media struggles when it came to covering Trump, Covid, race and other topics and how that has further eroded trust. It all comes as the major media outlets have experienced business struggles–trying to maintain audiences and profits in the digital era—making all the issues worse. In this conversation, we also discuss some of our OWN experiences inside national news outlets that expose the bias and the deepening disconnect with the viewer. Book Link – Please remember to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review. – Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Jill Wagner (@jillrwagner) is an Emmy and Murrow award- winning journalist. She's currently the Managing Editor of the Mo News newsletter and previously worked as a reporter for CBS News, Cheddar News, and News 12. She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/moshehnews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to a special edition of the Mo news podcast.
0:07.8	We spent a lot of time on our various platforms tracking how the media covers news events.
0:12.9	We talk about some great coverage and some great reporting and then also some not so great
0:17.1	work by journalists.
0:18.5	My guest today comes from the media world and is now writing about it in a new book.
0:23.6	Steve Krakauer is a journalist who has worked in a number of major networks over the
0:27.1	last two decades.
0:28.4	He is now independent and he has a new book out called Uncovered.
0:32.0	How the media got cozy with power, abandoned its principles and lost the people.
0:37.2	Today, Steve and I go in depth on where the media has gone awry over these last tenor
0:41.6	or so years.
0:42.6	It's coverage of Trump, race, COVID, and a number of other issues.
0:47.4	We talk today about why this is led to a lessening of trust in the media.
0:51.1	In fact, the US right now among nearly 50 countries in the world has the lowest amount
0:55.8	of trust.
0:56.8	Americans have the lowest amount of trust in their media institutions.
1:00.6	Steve for this book is interviewed several dozen journalists at top institutions on what's
1:05.4	wrong and how we can fix it.
1:08.2	What's interesting, Steve and I have interacted a number of times through the years.
1:10.7	We've taken some similar paths initially working for national news outlets, now working
1:14.9	in independent media.
1:16.4	So we talk about those experiences today on this episode.
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