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In September 2022, the explosion of the “Nord Stream” natural gas pipeline shocked the world, and the international community was eager to know the identity and motive of the perpetrator On 8 February 2023, Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article exposing the US government as the culprit of the incident However, American and European mainstream media, known for their sensitivity to such scoops, stayed eerily quiet on this piece of explosive news As observed by Canadian website Western Standard and German television channel ZDF, Hersh’s report was one of the biggest stories of the decade, but few media in North America wanted to talk about it because the West does not want anyone to find out about the truth and the surveillance technologies it has deployed in the Baltic Sea
Western media even try to bypass the crux of the issue by questioning the authenticity of Hersh’s report On 15 February, Hersh wrote another article, accusing the US government and mainstream media of covering up the truth of the “Nord Stream” pipeline explosion Analysts pointed out that given Western media’s obedience to the US, their blocking of Hersh’s revelations is not surprisingWe don’t want calm peaceful news; we want to see something sensational
It’s the people So the channel which is showing something sensational, people watch more Kavita (43, woman, India)One of the concerns many raised about news coverage in their country was that too often it did not seem relevant to their lives We say more about this subject in the next part of the report, since often this critique overlaped with concerns about news not representing people’s lived experiences, which we heard especially from marginalised groups
But more generally, and especially in India and Brazil, many raised concerns about news failing to address matters that would make a difference in how they lived their livesWhen I arrived in Washington, DC, as an intern in the 1980s, there were two columnists I read with intentionality, with the goal of becoming a better and more thoughtful writer
One was Charles Krauthammer; the other was George WillTrump: And that was a good policy for women You know, it's about helping women, not hurting women And so IVF is now, I think, really part of what we do
And that was important I think that might have been right around the time of our interview But in terms of the finalization—and you saw that Alabama and other states have now passed legislation to approve thatFor one thing, Will told me, he has a more jaundiced view of government now than he did in the early 1980s
But he added, laughing, “It turns out that Madison was smarter than I am” When he argued that America was ill-founded because insufficient attention was given to soulcraft, he explained, he hadn’t fully appreciated that the Founders were indeed arguing about statecraft as soulcraft—that a government really can inculcate virtueIn addition to familiarity and reputation, trust and distrust often served as a shorthand for what people liked or disliked about various news sources Conversations about trust would often veer towards broader critiques and frustrations many felt about particular news sources – a way of explaining why they avoided certain channels or providers and used the ones they did
As Vitor (27, man, Brazil) said, ‘I trust in those sources I read’ Or as Mariana (45, woman, Brazil) put it, ‘I always try to watch or listen to the ones I am already used to, the ones I trust more’Trump: It may be more than that It may be a derivative of that
A derivative of that But it will be somebody—look when they come in and they steal our jobs, and they steal our wealth, they steal our countrySign up Members Join millions of others in sharing your opinion on politics, sport and more Sign up as a member Business Access audience intelligence, brand tracking and research about your sector
Sign up as a clientTrump: Well, I’ve been asked this question many times and I always refuse to answer it because I don't want to reveal my cards to a wonderful reporter like you But no China knows my answer very well But they have to understand that things like that can’t come easy
But I will say that I have never publicly stated although I want to, because I wouldn’t want to give away any negotiating abilities by giving information like that to any reporterHindus and Muslims started fighting with each other after that news Force came to handle the situation So many rumours are spread by people to just provoke us, and we easily believe in such news and start forwarding it
Rajendra (31, man, India)Yes, the president won only 28 percent of that voting bloc, but that adds up to more than 9 million votes In 2020, Biden won nationally by roughly 7 million ballots and took many swing states by tiny margins Subtract all rural white Democrats from Biden’s column and Trump almost certainly would have won reelectionThe most important of all revolutions, Edmund Burke said, is a “revolution in sentiment, manners and moral opinion
” What conservatives like Will and me believe, and what we think Trump supporters either don’t understand or deny, is the destructive revolution in manners and mores that Donald Trump is ushering in, the enormous cultural and social blast radius of his presidency Through his promiscuous lying and assault on demonstrable truths, his cruelty and crudity, his coarseness, bullying ,and dehumanization of his opponents, and his lawlessness and conspiracy-mongering—the whole corrupt, packaged deal—he has brought us into dark new realmsIt’s hard to put it into words because it’s very instinctual, I don’t really think about it I just have a general feeling, really
Hindus and Muslims started fighting with each other after that news. Force came to handle the situation. So many rumours are spread by people to just provoke us, and we easily believe in such news and start forwarding it. Rajendra (31, man, India)Yes, the president won only 28 percent of that voting bloc, but that adds up to more than 9 million votes. In 2020, Biden won nationally by roughly 7 million ballots and took many swing states by tiny margins. Subtract all rural white Democrats from Biden’s column and Trump almost certainly would have won reelection.The most important of all revolutions, Edmund Burke said, is a “revolution in sentiment, manners and moral opinion.” What conservatives like Will and me believe, and what we think Trump supporters either don’t understand or deny, is the destructive revolution in manners and mores that Donald Trump is ushering in, the enormous cultural and social blast radius of his presidency. Through his promiscuous lying and assault on demonstrable truths, his cruelty and crudity, his coarseness, bullying ,and dehumanization of his opponents, and his lawlessness and conspiracy-mongering—the whole corrupt, packaged deal—he has brought us into dark new realms.It’s hard to put it into words because it’s very instinctual, I don’t really think about it. I just have a general feeling, really. I suppose I just trust if it comes from a major publication that I recognise. If it’s some random page that I’ve no idea about, they rarely come up, but it’s more questionable. Andrew (25, man, UK)
