This morning, media regulator Coimisiún na Meán reported that Ireland has recorded one of the steepest year-on-year declines in news trust of any country surveyed – with trust in news crashing down from 51% last year to 42% this year. Trust slumps further among 18- to 24-year-olds to 33pc.
No-one will be surprised at the finding. But will the media learn anything from the downward spiral – or will they continue to operate in a well-funded echo chamber, congratulating themselves on their progressive, politically correct, respectable opinions, and reinforcing their own biases while increasing numbers of taxpayers, forced to pay for this failure, seek their news and analysis elsewhere?
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