#media-accountability

#media-accountability

I know there are tons of ways to operationalize and measure trust, but trust, at its core, is a belief that someone or something will live up to their proclaimed commitments. I've surveyed people all over the United States (with a hyperfocus on vulnerable communities in the Midwest), and there's a few things that are clear. First, trust is a universal challenge, and people don't trust a lot of things right now.

On the night of Zohran Mamdani's election victory, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, posted congratulations on social media, writing, "New Yorkers faced a clear choice - between hope and fear - and just like we've seen in London - hope won." But Khan, the first Muslim mayor of London, knows all too well that even after hope wins, hatred hangs around like an angry drunk in an alley, spoiling for a rematch.

'We're gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you,' Trump appeared to say. 'And we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell you're not gonna have a country any more.' In fact the footage was made up of content from three separate sections of the speech, with the mention of fighting coming 54 minutes later during a segment on 'corrupt' elections.

To confront Donald Trump is to engage in asymmetric warfare. It is to enter a battlefield that is not level, where he enjoys an immediate and in-built advantage over those who would oppose him or merely hold him to account. That fact has cost Democrats dearly over the past decade exacting a toll again this very week but it has now upended an institution central to Britain's national life: namely, the BBC.

Screenshot Fox News is drawing heat from media industry observers for getting duped by an AI-generated video and then failing to take sufficient accountability for the error. In a piece published Friday to Foxnews.com, writer Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi posted about SNAP beneficiaries threatening to loot stores amid the government shutdown. The piece, originally headlined SNAP Beneficiaries Threaten to Ransack Stores Over Government Shutdown, quoted Black women claiming to be SNAP recipients complaining about the cutoff of benefits due to the shutdown.

Sinclair will not lift the suspension of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' on our stations until formal discussions are held with ABC regarding the network's commitment to professionalism and accountability," the company said.

Halperin's return to TV was shocking, particularly given his history of numerous accusations of sexual misconduct that surfaced during the #MeToo movement.

The absence of accurate figures from various cities in the Bay Area, particularly in the context of significant protests, undermines the media's role as truth-tellers.

Given the time we're having this conversation, do you have any thoughts on political violence and or the political rhetoric in this country?

"The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism... He’s a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He eats his hate."

The Daily News apparently forgot that opening a door into traffic - aka 'dooring' - is illegal, instead allowing the killer van driver whose illegal act killed a cyclist in SoHo to say he was sad.

We, myself included, missed a lot of this story. And some people trust us less because of it. We bear some responsibility for faith in the media being at such lows.