<story><title>How U.S. media lost the trust of the public</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/media-distrust-big-news-1.5965622</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackeraccount</author><text>People shouldn&amp;#x27;t trust the media.  It&amp;#x27;s filled with people who go into it because they want to change the world.  There&amp;#x27;s nothing wrong with that but if you consume it thinking that shouldn&amp;#x27;t be or isn&amp;#x27;t the case you&amp;#x27;re going to come away feeling betrayed.&lt;p&gt;The thing that annoys me is people who go into careers that are explicitly premised on describing the world only because they think they can use the trust that comes from that to change the world.  Those people aren&amp;#x27;t in media though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s filled with people who go into it because they want to change the world.&lt;p&gt;You may want to go into journalism to change the world, but you get hired in journalism for agreeing with the owners of media outlets.</text></comment>
<story><title>How U.S. media lost the trust of the public</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/media-distrust-big-news-1.5965622</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackeraccount</author><text>People shouldn&amp;#x27;t trust the media.  It&amp;#x27;s filled with people who go into it because they want to change the world.  There&amp;#x27;s nothing wrong with that but if you consume it thinking that shouldn&amp;#x27;t be or isn&amp;#x27;t the case you&amp;#x27;re going to come away feeling betrayed.&lt;p&gt;The thing that annoys me is people who go into careers that are explicitly premised on describing the world only because they think they can use the trust that comes from that to change the world.  Those people aren&amp;#x27;t in media though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackyhacky</author><text>Presenting the truth honestly and without bias sounds like a great way to change the world.</text></comment>