Trust in media is at an all time low. No one disputes this, but people seem to have different ideas for how this happened.
Jim VandeHei, the founder of Axios, recently spoke to Bari Weiss of the Free Press and offered three reasons why he thinks this happened. He gets it partially right.
FOX News reports:
“What happened with Twitter is – people forget now [since] it’s a lot of conservative voices, a lot of independent voices – it was a hotbed of liberal groupthink for a long time,” VandeHei said. “And it was the first time since I’ve been in this business that I would get on a feed and I would see reporters who I had trusted, who I admired, making it crystal clear what side they were on. You could tell in what they were tweeting, and you could tell in who they were following and who was following them.”
He continued, “Then came along, kind of, the COVID, Defund the Police, word policing, where I think a lot of Americans were looking around going ‘that doesn’t sit right with me.’ And the way it’s being covered didn’t sit right with them.”
VandeHei called the media’s failure to properly cover Biden’s mental state the final straw for many.
“People were saying, ‘I can see with my own two eyes that the guy seems pretty old, probably doesn’t seem capable of being the president in the next term and yet there’s not a whole hell of a lot of coverage of it,’” VandeHei said.
Here’s the video:
Axios founder @JimVandeHei says trust in American media collapsed in three phases.
1. Twitter exposed the political bias of “objective” journalists.
2. Coverage of Covid, “defund the police,” and word policing didn’t sit right with Americans.
3. The lack of coverage around Joe… pic.twitter.com/aTpxAZQrYr
— Honestly with Bari Weiss (@thehonestlypod) April 8, 2025
He is right about Twitter. It did expose the biases of many journalists, but it’s not as if people didn’t already know. On the second reason, the media did a lot more than a little speech policing. They canceled people and ruined their lives. They blocked the Hunter Biden laptop story from social media, and that was much bigger than speech policing. Finally, if you watched the video, you heard him say that there are only a few bad apples in the media. That’s completely wrong. The media is full of people acting in bad faith. Funny he never mentions the Russia collusion hoax.
If the media wants to start restoring trust, entire networks need to be overhauled and a lot of people need to be fired.
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