Rush Limbaugh Apr 15, 2021

Axios writer Felix Salmon reports that trust in the drive by media has reached a low point in America and so low that he says, it's at a crisis state.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Axios writer Felix Salmon reports that trust in the drive
by media has reached a low point in America. It's
so low that he says it's at a crisis state now.
He reports that, for the first time ever, fewer than
half of all Americans trust the traditional media, meaning the
drive buys. Almost six Americans believe that most traditional news

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outlets are more concerned with an ideology or a political
position than they are reporting the news. Almost the same
percentage think that the drive by media journalists are willing
to tell gross exaggerations and to report things they know
are false e Fake news in typical Axios format. The
reporter then has to tell his millennial readers why it matters.

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Felix Salmon maybe it's pronounced Salmon, who knows, says this
matters because faith in society central institutions, especially in government
and media, is the glue that holds society together, and
that glue, he says, is visibly dissolving, and for many
millions of Americans, it's disappeared completely. Salmon does not understand
that the reason six of Americans have no faith in

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the media or in his precious government institutions is because
they're smart. They know the drive bys and the deep
state government are run by dishonest, corrupt, vicious leftists, and
for the last four years they've seen those liberals totally
deranged with hatred for Trump and everyone who supports him.
That's really why it matters, and they don't even have

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the slightest idea