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Comment by chrisseaton | Hacker News Reader

This article doesn't even remotely go where you think it would if you're going off the headline and your preconceptions.

Ends up as

> CEOs have long put themselves forward as the people able to upgrade America's physical infrastructure. Now it's time for them to use the trust they've built up to help rebuild our civic infrastructure.

Who's trusting most CEOs?

Being charitable, I guess people are trusting people who are actually able to put money into their hands and food on their table, rather than people who make promises or give abstract benefits or who take money from them?

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Bear in mind this article's primary source (data, interpretation, calls to action, etc.) is Edelman, a global PR firm. Quoting from the tagline on Edelman's own website, its mission is to "partner with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. "

The survey data itself sounds plausible, and I've got no immediate reason to question the numbers. But when it comes to interpretation and next steps, Edelman very much has a point of view that predates whatever the data has found.

Food catch.

In other words: This article itself contributes more to increase mistrust in the media than it increases the trust in the media.

Especially considering this quote from the article: Axios has a stated mission to "help restore trust in fact-based news".

Even if people do trust CEOs, there is no actionable request here.

There is no explanation given for why trust is diminishing or what CEOs are supposed to do to fix it.

As far as I can see the problem is that media really has always been ideologically biased, but the advent of social media and the ease of getting news online has made this obvious.

We can’t ‘fix’ the problem because it’s not broken. The only solution is a kind of upgrade that current media organizations simply aren’t built to deliver.

The discussion here is what I'm interested in. Pure gold the sheer insight you get from a wide range of minds. That is what the media should be: access and transmission of deep insight by really smart individuals, backed by non-cherry-picked and objective facts.

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