Media Credibility takes a hit from Tom Brokaw

[Cheshire Cat]

A bit of news about those reporting the news.  Looks like some of the old school reporters, you know the ones from back in the day who saw their job as important and factual reporting of the news as something to be proud of have had "enough" of the flashy hype that has slowly replaced what was once considered industry integrity.   So what pushed Tom over the edge and cause him to cry "enough", seems it was the presence of Lindsey Lohan at the Whitehouse Correspondent's dinner.  I don't blame him for his reaction either.  Lohan and credibility really do not go hand in hand.

“The breaking point for me was Lindsay Lohan,” Tom Brokaw recently said. While this statement could apply to so many circumstances, he was specifically referring to the annual gala event known as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “[W]hat we’re doing with that dinner, as it has been constituted for the past several years, is saying, ‘We’re Versailles. The rest of you eat cake,’” Brokaw added in a striking rebuke of what the night (which has evolved into a whole weekend of festivities) has become. There will come a day soon when members of the press will ask themselves why they did not listen to Brokaw. The political media has a credibility problem, and the WHCD is not helping

The media’s credibility is in free fall. The reliable headline emerging from Gallup’s annual survey of Americans designed to measure their trust in the media is that mistrust of the Fourth Estate has reached a “record high” â€" three times in as many years, in fact. 60 percent of all adults in 2012 said they do not trust the media. Only 8 percent of respondents said they have a “great deal” of trust in the news media. This is a crisis by any standard. The public no longer trusts the product that is being produced.

For full story:  http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-narcissism-of-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-hurting-the-medias-already-tarnished-brand/