Post-truth politics in the US has reinforced European distrust of media institutions
Evidence
Evidently, the increasing infiltration of the political public sphere by fake news, and in particular the spectacular development towards a ‘post-truth democracy’ that became the alarming normality in the US under the Trump administration, have also reinforced distrust in the media in Europe. Forty-one per cent of the respondents to the Eurobarometer survey doubt that the reporting of the national media is free from political and economic influence; 39 per cent explicitly affirm this distrust with regard to the public media that today form the backbone of a liberal public sphere; and as many as 79 per cent claim that they have encountered distorted or false news. — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 38
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the 2022 essay’s larger argument and to post-truth debates from the 1962 Public Sphere thesis sphere. — connects to: Organized funding sustains professional anti-Muslim propaganda networks in the US — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 29; Fake news blurred the line between official and media definers; Political disinformation was outsourced to low-cost global labor markets — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 485 (+2 more)
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Broader Connections
- Fake news blurred the line between official and media definers
#corroborates(0.75) - Organized funding sustains professional anti-Muslim propaganda networks in the US
#expands(0.72) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 29 - Political disinformation was outsourced to low-cost global labor markets
#expands(0.72) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 485