The Busted Flush of the Press
Columbia Journalism Review offers a post-mortem on how biased coverage of President Trump sparked a collapse in press credibility.

The news in Columbia Journalism Reviewâs series, by Jeff Gerth, on the coverage of President Trump is not that the press went all in on a busted flush. Thatâs old news to readers of the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and our own modest columns, among others. Until 2016, Mr. Gerth reports, âmost Americans trusted the traditional media.â Today, though, Americaâs press âhas the lowest credibility â 26 percent â among forty-six nations.â
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