“The ‘first and most voiced complaint’ from participants was that news coverage of people like them skewed toward negative stories or reflected them in a negative light.”
A deep linguistic analysis finds that newspapers today are a lot like newspapers 30 years ago. But TV news — especially cable news — has ramped up the emotion, the conversationality, and the arguing.
“Whenever you have an individual interaction, a lot of the bluster, a lot of
the generalizations, a lot of the group identifications fall away,” one participant in Pennsylvania said.
Schmidt, Christine. "Planted stories? Fake news as editorial decisions? Trump or CNN? A poll examines the public’s trust of mainstream media." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 3 Apr. 2018. Web. 12 May. 2023.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2018, Apr. 3). Planted stories? Fake news as editorial decisions? Trump or CNN? A poll examines the public’s trust of mainstream media. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 12, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/04/planted-stories-fake-news-as-editorial-decisions-trump-or-cnn-a-poll-examines-the-publics-trust-of-mainstream-media/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "Planted stories? Fake news as editorial decisions? Trump or CNN? A poll examines the public’s trust of mainstream media." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified April 3, 2018. Accessed May 12, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/04/planted-stories-fake-news-as-editorial-decisions-trump-or-cnn-a-poll-examines-the-publics-trust-of-mainstream-media/.
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