Journalism faces a crisis in trust. Journalists fall into two very different camps for how to fix it
Posted on AllSides October 9th, 2020
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Journalism faces a well-documented crisis of trust. This long-running decline in public confidence in the press is part of a broader skepticism that has developed about the trustworthiness of institutions more generally — leading to an overall trust recession that worries observers who speculate about the endgame of this downward spiral.
But might we see these issues of news and trust in a new light if we reconsidered our assumptions about what actually leads people to develop trust in journalism?
Consider, for example, how journalists for decades have sought to...