60 Minutes incident affected consumer trust in journalism for a third of people, finds poll
More than a third of people say their faith in Australian journalism was eroded by the 60 Minutes’ child snatch debacle, according to a public poll carried out for Mumbrella.
The YouGov poll of 1,000 people found just 9% think Australian journalism is “very trustworthy”, while 62% said they consider it “somewhat trustworthy”. That left 10% describing it as “very untrustworthy” and 19% saying it was “somewhat untrustworthy”.
Journalist Tracey Spicer told Mumbrella she was: “heartened by the fact that 71% of respondents find Australia journalism somewhat or very trustworthy”.
“Often, polls show we’re on the same rung as real estate agents and used car salespeople,” she added.
Ridiculous! 60 Minutes hasn’t been journalism since the 90’s.
They shouldn’t feel too bad, everyone knows 60mins is largely fiction, PLUS… NewsCorp have been making a laugh of ‘journalism’ for decades!
But, all of this work should have resulted in more hate in society, and especially with Dutton, instantly give the ruling party lots of power! It has to work. It always has and always will, because proles are stupid. More abductions so ‘ordinary’ people get back in line, dont stop doing them until people crack and hate brown people!
Well, the Lebanon kidnapping fiasco didn’t affect my faith in Australian journalism. But only because it had already reached rock bottom with the Barcelona Tonight fiasco.