As a statistician, I’m interested in how people get confused by data.ģ. ![]() ![]() Mistakes of reporting can be important in themselves and also can reveal deeper misunderstandings.Ģ. As a political scientist who studies American public opinion, I’m interested in examples where journalists get things way off. That claim surprised me too! It turns out it’s not true.ġ. In the introductory section, Gerth says: “Before the 2016 election, most Americans trusted the traditional media and the trend was positive, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer….Today, the US media has the lowest credibility-26 percent-among forty-six nations, according to a 2022 study by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.”Ĭonfidence in the media has been in general decline for decades, according to the data I’ve seen, so the first sentence surprised me. The Columbia Journalism Review recently published a long article by Jeff Gerth on media coverage of Donald Trump. David “ should have a regular NYT column” Weakliem writes:
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