Fascinatingly, I think you'd get a very different answer if you asked people if they thought members of "the media" are elite.
My reaction is that "journalists" are underpaid, scrappy, truthseekers, working hard to hold powerful people and institutions to account for their transgressions against society. Think ProPublica, your local paper, etc.
Whereas "the media" are a bunch of overpaid Fox-and-MSNBC elitist, disingenuous hacks whose primary job is to stir up anxious infotainment addicts by constantly identifying (and exaggerating) new and urgent threats to society and the world.
Obviously, both groups are journalists. But my perception of each label differs wildly.
Over half the 19-29 year olds get their news from Instagram? Is it even calibrated to deliver news? Are there specialized Instagram news feeds that do nothing but deliver news stories?
"... it seems like America’s young adults are approaching the field with a slightly more open mind than older Americans. And they are not particularly buying the “liberal media” narrative that the right has been pushing to discredit the profession since before they were born."
It's not a "narrative." Surveys of U.S. journalists over decades consistently show that self-identified Democrats or liberals outnumber Republicans or conservatives by margins typically ranging from 3-to-1 to 4-to-1.
As for young people getting news from TikTok, that's both a scathing and sad commentary on the intellect of youth. I question the intelligence and judgement of anyone who relies on any algorithm for news.
As someone firmly into middle age, I encourage you to embrace Millennial Supremacy and Don Draper Don’t Think Of You At All Meme the entire Zoomer cohort ;)
Is it also possible that the higher percentage of young people saying the media doesn’t have a liberal bias is further left young people who think the “corporate media” is biased against them?
Fascinatingly, I think you'd get a very different answer if you asked people if they thought members of "the media" are elite.
My reaction is that "journalists" are underpaid, scrappy, truthseekers, working hard to hold powerful people and institutions to account for their transgressions against society. Think ProPublica, your local paper, etc.
Whereas "the media" are a bunch of overpaid Fox-and-MSNBC elitist, disingenuous hacks whose primary job is to stir up anxious infotainment addicts by constantly identifying (and exaggerating) new and urgent threats to society and the world.
Obviously, both groups are journalists. But my perception of each label differs wildly.
I keep thinking that these surveys also need to ask whether elite is a negative term, a favorable term, or a neutral one.
I'm not sure my take on "young people get their news from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube" is quite as positive as this article is framed.
Eh it feels a bit weird that they like journalism but only from a distance. Kinda how I feel about pandas.
Over half the 19-29 year olds get their news from Instagram? Is it even calibrated to deliver news? Are there specialized Instagram news feeds that do nothing but deliver news stories?
"... it seems like America’s young adults are approaching the field with a slightly more open mind than older Americans. And they are not particularly buying the “liberal media” narrative that the right has been pushing to discredit the profession since before they were born."
It's not a "narrative." Surveys of U.S. journalists over decades consistently show that self-identified Democrats or liberals outnumber Republicans or conservatives by margins typically ranging from 3-to-1 to 4-to-1.
As for young people getting news from TikTok, that's both a scathing and sad commentary on the intellect of youth. I question the intelligence and judgement of anyone who relies on any algorithm for news.
As someone firmly into middle age, I encourage you to embrace Millennial Supremacy and Don Draper Don’t Think Of You At All Meme the entire Zoomer cohort ;)
Is it also possible that the higher percentage of young people saying the media doesn’t have a liberal bias is further left young people who think the “corporate media” is biased against them?