{"id":32111,"date":"2015-03-07T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/there-is-nothing-actually-legitimate-about-fox\/"},"modified":"2015-03-07T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T14:32:09","slug":"there-is-nothing-actually-legitimate-about-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/there-is-nothing-actually-legitimate-about-fox\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is nothing actually legitimate about Fox News (or MSNBC for that matter) and young people know this. They don\u2019t trust news organizations because news organizations have given them no reason to be trusting. These channels exist not to inform but to uphold the biases and values of particular ideologies. Ideologies and values, by the way, that very few young people embody. Even when they try to strike a balance, they do it by pitting different perspectives against each other in staged arguments. But neither perspective looks familiar to most people under the age of 40, so they just tune out.<\/p>\n

This complete lack of objectivity and representation in cable news has degraded the legitimacy of news media as a whole. Young people have absolutely no faith in people sitting at desks on television anymore. It\u2019s gotten so bad that the most trusted news show among people under 40 is on Comedy Central. The Daily Show, it should be noted, spends as much time mocking the news media as it does talking about the news, further decreasing young people\u2019s trust of the news. The news is losing an entire generation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Hank Green. Holy Shit, I Interviewed the President<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Background<\/b>: Green is one of the three YouTubers that Google and the White House arranged to interview President Obama for the State of the Union address. Over on Medium he writes about the blowback he and his cohorts received from legacy media, and explores how traditional news organizations have lost the trust of younger news consumers.<\/p>\n

For example<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Legacy media isn\u2019t mocking us because we aren\u2019t a legitimate source of information; they\u2019re mocking us because they\u2019re terrified. Their legitimacy came from the fact that they have access to distribution channels and that they get to be in the White House press pool because of some long-ago established procedures that assumed they would use that power in the public interest. In reality, those things are becoming less and less important and less and less true. Distribution is free to anyone with a cell phone and the legitimacy of cable news sounds to me like an oxymoron. The median-aged CNN viewer is 60. For Fox, it\u2019s 68.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Fox\/MSNBC machine is degrading a generation\u2019s opinion of all news media. Young people watch Jon Stewart make fun of Fox News and they think \u201cThat\u2019s what \u2018news\u2019 is\u201d so they disengage. This isn\u2019t just bad for journalism, it\u2019s bad for America. I might venture to say that it\u2019s terrible and dangerous and frightening for America. How does a democracy function with no credible system for informing its citizens?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check it<\/a>. It\u2019s well worth the read.<\/p>\n

(via futurejournalismproject<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is nothing actually legitimate about Fox News (or MSNBC for that matter) and young people know this. They don\u2019t trust news organizations because news organizations have given them no reason to be trusting. These channels exist not to inform but to uphold the biases and values of particular ideologies. Ideologies and values, by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8lV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}