{"id":97082,"date":"2025-10-21T20:17:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=97082"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:29:34","slug":"how-to-find-trustworthy-news-reporting-in-these-times-deggans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/10\/21\/how-to-find-trustworthy-news-reporting-in-these-times-deggans\/","title":{"rendered":"How to find trustworthy news reporting in these times? [Deggans]"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">One of my sisters is a Professor of Communication at a major university and she recently sent me the following article. I thought I&#8217;d pass it along to those of you who are also interested in this topic. My sister has written several books on media literacy and has created museum-based exhibits to address this topic.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ericdeggans.substack.com\/p\/how-to-find-trustworthy-news-reporting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to find trustworthy news reporting in these times?<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from ericdeggans.substack.com by Switching Codes w\/Eric Deggans<br \/>\n<em>I don&#8217;t have the perfect answer. But here&#8217;s a few ideas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a few suggestions for how to navigate our new, challenging news media reality.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find individual journalists to trust&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t let the perfect be the enemy of the good&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Be skeptical of those telling you what you want to hear&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Learn what outlets are good at covering&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The above article links to:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ericdeggans.substack.com\/p\/my-take-on-why-americans-dont-trust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>My take on why Americans don&#8217;t trust journalists anymore<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from ericdeggans.substack.com by Switching Codes w\/Eric Deggans<br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s more complicated than journalists failing in their mission. And reversing the numbers are key to preserving democracy.<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ericdeggans.substack.com\/p\/my-take-on-why-americans-dont-trust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!5Nl9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff25034fd-cad8-4d56-9640-4448f88d4a98_1220x1162.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>On a somewhat-related note, see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allsides.com\/media-bias\/media-bias-chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AllSides Media Bias Chart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97086\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MediaBiasChart-Oct2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MediaBiasChart-Oct2025.jpg 1296w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MediaBiasChart-Oct2025-808x1024.jpg 808w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MediaBiasChart-Oct2025-118x150.jpg 118w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MediaBiasChart-Oct2025-768x973.jpg 768w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MediaBiasChart-Oct2025-1212x1536.jpg 1212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: One of my sisters is a Professor of Communication at a major university and she recently sent me the following article. I thought I&#8217;d pass it along to those of you who are also interested in this topic. My sister has written several books on media literacy and has created museum-based exhibits to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[851,387,433,25,480,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-business","category-communications","category-journalism","category-society","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97088,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97082\/revisions\/97088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}