Trust ceiling

Still thinking about media, Batya, etc. Looked at a Gallup page on media trust to see if anything new is happening. Nothing fresh, but noticed this long-term graph that shows what media wants.

Everyone says that Watergate was a shining example of Letting It All Hang Out, and renewed our trust in media.

Nope. Watergate gave media a couple years of weak gains, then the decline started. 9/11 provided another brief upstroke. Trump Derangement was a sharper upstroke, as partisans trusted Fox and CNN to tell them opposite lies about Trump. Then the overall trend resumed.

Note especially: As with the “debt ceiling” stageplay, these media stageplays DON’T AFFECT THE OVERALL TREND. After each brief upstroke, the straight line goes back to the same downward path it had before.

This is what media wants. The graph is a fine quality-control measure for the intended product.

The line tells us that media hates truth, hates people, and ENJOYS BEING DISTRUSTED AND HATED. Standard lunatic psychopath behavior. The only reason to create a brief moment of trust and normalcy is to smash it even harder.

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Footnote: I was especially curious to see if the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 created an upstroke or a downstroke, but Gallup apparently wasn’t asking this question from ’75 to ’97, so those years aren’t visible. Earlier polls indicated that Americans trusted radio more than papers SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE radio was forced to be non-partisan. I think FCC stopped seriously enforcing the Doctrine in the ’60s, so the official repeal didn’t matter much.