“60 Minutes” reporter Lesley Stahl admitted feeling “very darkish” about the way forward for the free press contemplating President-elect Donald Trump is taking workplace once more.
Stahl took half in an occasion on the 92NY Heart for Tradition & Arts with columnist Peggy Noonan in November, the place the subject was a mirrored image on the 2024 presidential election. Throughout their dialog, they lamented falling belief in and a focus to the mainstream media.
“The press is fraying,” Stahl mentioned.
“60 Minutes” reporter Lesley Stahl mentioned the state of the media after Trump’s re-election. (AP Pictures)
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“Yeah, completely,” Noonan replied, although she argued this has been a typical perspective over the past 20 years. “Nothing’s going to cease you from being the free press.”
“You actually are a sunny particular person, aren’t you?” Stahl remarked. “I’m very fearful in regards to the press, extraordinarily fearful in regards to the press.”
Stahl identified that legacy media continues to have file low ranges of belief “down there with the attorneys,” largely resulting from individuals like Trump and Elon Musk insisting “legacy media is useless.”
Stahl recommended Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump’s pushback on legacy media might be an element. (Brandon Bell)
Stahl added, “However it’s type of, type of hobbling proper now. And I don’t know the way it recovers. I’m very darkish about it.”
Noonan added different points contributing to legacy media struggling, just like the rise in expertise, and was pessimistic in regards to the future.
“We’re speaking about one thing so important that you just don’t need to say, ‘Effectively, we’ll see.’ Or perhaps, ‘The world will finish, we’ll see.’ But when America misplaced freedom of the press and freedom of speech, it might be the start of dropping all the pieces,” she mentioned.
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In October, a Gallup ballot discovered that for the third 12 months in a row, People had a traditionally low view of the press with solely 31% expressing a “nice deal” or “honest quantity” of religion within the media to report information pretty and precisely.
Media has constantly polled file low ranges of belief. (CBS 60 Minutes)
The identical ballot discovered 36% of People had no belief within the media with one other 33% having “not very a lot” confidence within the press.
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