💬 Opinion 9h ago · Ryan Curtis

The Media Environment Has Changed. Maybe That's All Right.

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The Media Environment Has Changed. Maybe That's All Right.
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People don't trust the mainstream news like they used to. In 1976, 72 percent of Americans told Gallup they had "a great deal of trust" that the mass media was "reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly." In 2026, the number was just 33 percent.
In a recent interview with Reason's Nick Gillespie, investigative journalist Matt Taibbi argued that journalists have lost touch with much of America and that this explains a lot of that drop.
The industry does indeed draw on a narrower slice of th

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