“In other words, it’s among the people who’ve spent a lifetime with traditional media that we now find the largest numbers who don’t trust them. This could mean that the media have begun doing things terribly wrong. It could also mean a lot more people now dismiss out of hand media they’re unfamiliar with. When two out of five middle-aged pollees say almost nothing’s believable in the Wall Street Journal–a preposterous impression–chances are the Journal name has lost the trust of a lot of people who’ve never picked it up” [Hot Type, April 22].
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- As for the Times, the supposedly “liberal” voice of America, I’m continually amazed at just how sloppy, lazy, or misleading they can be. From Judith “Chalabi’s Steno” Miller to David “Babbling” Brooks, the paper of record must be taken with a grain of salt. Thank god for Krugman, Rich, and (sometimes) Dowd. They’re the real reasons to continue reading it. (Though some of their reporters do great work.)
