PBS Frames Declining Trust In Media… Blames Fox, Reagan, 'Misinformation'

Posted • August 2, 2024: Wednesday’s PBS News Hour segment posed as an even-handed examination of declining trust in the news media, setting up Fox News on the right matching MSMNC on the left as both being to blame. But veteran reporter Judy Woodruff’s framing of bias as a problem only for cable news and its opinion-heavy political coverage, leaves out the constant bias that occurs on those presumed bastions of objectivity, the three networks and CNN. Anchor Geoff Bennett introduced the segment. Geoff Bennett: Despite having access to more information than ever before, Americans' trust in the news media has been declining in recent years, and nearly three-quarters of Americans say the news media is making political polarization worse. Judy Woodruff investigates as part of her ongoing series, America at a Crossroads.