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A Media Moment: News Organizations Challenged To Win Public Trust In An Assault Of Mixed Messages


This is one of those moments when the flow of news seems like an assault on the senses. Will our news media survive it?

With cameras barred, the TV networks are trying to achieve a sort of blanket coverage, with scrolls delivering legal analyses occasionally interrupted by Trump’s bursts of hallway rhetoric. The box office support of Gen-Zers for a knife-like narrative like Civil War illustrates the appetite for confrontation, but the passivity of streamerville still favors rom-coms and pseudo-reality programming. One star explained that “too much is happening too fast, making it scary to take sides.” During Vietnam, John Wayne succeeded in getting his movies made, but antiwar activists like Robert Vaughn found the job windows closing.

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