Media Matters: Trusting the news
By Richard Campbell | April 16, 2026"Alongside this decline has come a significant loss of trust in the news media – with one remarkable exception: local news."
"Alongside this decline has come a significant loss of trust in the news media – with one remarkable exception: local news."
"I first met Haygood, a 1976 Miami University graduate, in spring 2013. He delivered Miami’s commencement address, beginning his talk with the trailer for 'The Butler.'"
"Long before there was Rosa Parks, there was Ida B. Wells."
These words — biased, boring and bad — describe U.S. teenagers’ “perceptions of news media and journalism,” according to the latest News Literacy Project.
“It is the discipline of verification,” Bill Kovach once wrote, “that separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.”
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington, 1783