> People aren't reading because they don't trust mainstream news to deliver true facts
People of all stripes seem quite happy to trust news as long as it delivers facts that already fit their worldview
People of all stripes seem quite happy to trust news as long as it delivers facts that already fit their worldview
Bias in news has always been a problem, and I think you just have to listen to a variety of sources with different biases to find out the truth.
"""Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in the media -- such as newspapers, television and radio -- first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so again last year."""
https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-re...
And these stats hold for liberals as well; they feel their outlet isn't the "MSM", but that Fox is and is untrustworthy.
Since the job of news is now to sell ads and not tell the truth, a lot of "supporters" only hear what their side wants them to hear, and not the facts.
The real problem of course is that each party has different policies; but if we as citizens don't agree on the facts and problems facing us, then there is no way to evaluate the strength of the policies against the problems.