I agree with your observation about the growing sentiment of distrust, but not your causal claim.
There has been a well-organized and well funded campaign to get people to not trust. It started with the cigarette lobby realizing that they couldn't argue the science, but that science was hard to understand. So they spread doubt and confusion.
that strategy is now well known and practiced globally.
Fox News didn't just happen.
I know a few journalists, and many of them do take their professional ethics very seriously.
And yes, many of them are struggling. And watching others in their field able to make a living selling clickbait.
Who does the shame go to? The people who are tired of starving for upholding standards, or the people who starve them for upholding those standards?
There has been a well-organized and well funded campaign to get people to not trust. It started with the cigarette lobby realizing that they couldn't argue the science, but that science was hard to understand. So they spread doubt and confusion.
that strategy is now well known and practiced globally.
Fox News didn't just happen.
I know a few journalists, and many of them do take their professional ethics very seriously.
And yes, many of them are struggling. And watching others in their field able to make a living selling clickbait.
Who does the shame go to? The people who are tired of starving for upholding standards, or the people who starve them for upholding those standards?