The following headline caught our attention:
Media Confidence Ratings at Record Lows
Highlights include:
• Only 16% of Americans have a great deal/quite a lot of confidence in newspapers
• Only 11% have some the degree of confidence in television news
Our takeaway:
We can’t depend on local media. To protect and preserve groundwater in Cochise County, we need our own media.
“The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
—Malcolm X (1962), African American minister and human rights activist