[cromwellian]

The media has been nonstop attacked by the political right going all the way back to the 80. It started with talk radio.

Before cable TV News was a loss leader mostly limited to time slots that were the least profitable for commercials and mostly covered headlines.

When 24/7 cable arrived with CNN and then Fox, the filled in time essentially became 23 hours of talking head opinion. Suddenly the critics isolated to talk radio got their own forums.

But what really finally destroyed trust was social media. Now instead of just your uncle telling you to watch Fox, he’s resharing all over FB, and now Post-Musk Twitter.

With the signal to noise ratio going to hell, and one side almost constantly spreading (according to a peer reviewed a Science journal paper recently) significantly more misinformation to their own bubble, is it any wonder trust is declining?

The final nail in the coffin will be AI where deepfakes and bots will make it almost impossible to believe any story.