Also unless I'm missing something the decline in trust is for journalists and journalism, not just "legacy media" right? So even new media that employs professional journalists are implicated here.
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oh yes, entirely agree. i just couldn’t handle continuing to be screamed at by people telling me the media is bad and teens are the only smart ones lol.
jan 31, 2025, 5:41 pm • 4 0 • view
I'm spitballing,b ut Ireally think it's b/c when I was a teen, the news was still considered a subject "for adults." Newspapers, mags, 60 mins, 20/20. We didn't find out about the world until we actively sought it out and then gravitated to sources we (thought) we could trust.
jan 31, 2025, 5:48 pm • 4 0 • view
My 11 and 15 year old nephew/niece know way more about current events than I did at the same age, and ofc they're getting it thru social media. So the idea of the news being something serious and adult doesn't form a part of their consciousness. It's flattened out into content.
jan 31, 2025, 5:50 pm • 4 0 • view
And then when whatever remnants of serious reporting are left fail, their beliefs are reaffirmed: it's all content. So why not listen to whatever news influencer they've grown up on and become inculcated to. Again, this is top of my head stuff. I could be totally wrong!
jan 31, 2025, 5:51 pm • 4 0 • view
This all tracks for me, for whatever that's worth. I think it's a smart insight
jan 31, 2025, 5:53 pm • 2 0 • view
But also teens are living in more diverse communities, so baked in media biases against communities of color are more obvious to them. Not to mention the corporate media’s normalization of Trump has happened in their formative years.
jan 31, 2025, 6:02 pm • 4 0 • view