{"id":4740,"date":"2020-04-26T12:14:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T16:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2020-04-26T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T16:14:19","slug":"do-you-trust-government-media-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4740","title":{"rendered":"Do You Trust Government &#038; Media Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1005\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1005\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1005 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TAATAW_LOGO_H_color-tagline-e1389534413622.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to these recent Gallup polls, American&#8217;s trust in government is at an all time low. The same can be said for American&#8217;s trust in media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two questions. If Americans don&#8217;t trust the government to handle problems, and they don&#8217;t trust mass media then:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;Why are American&#8217;s placing trust in their elected officials to make the &#8220;right&#8221; decisions for them during this crisis?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Why are American&#8217;s now trusting the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>What are your thoughts? What will be the &#8220;state of trust&#8221; in government and media when this crisis ends?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Post your thoughts here or contact me directly at <a href=\"&#x6d;a&#x69;&#x6c;t&#x6f;&#58;B&#x61;&#114;b&#x61;r&#x61;&#x40;t&#x72;&#117;s&#x74;&#97;c&#x72;o&#x73;&#x73;a&#x6d;&#x65;r&#x69;&#99;a&#x2e;&#99;o&#x6d;\">Bar&#98;&#x61;&#x72;&#x61;&#x40;tru&#115;&#x74;&#x61;&#x63;&#x72;oss&#97;&#109;&#x65;&#x72;&#x69;&#x63;a.c&#111;&#x6d;\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4742\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4742\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4742 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Government.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Government.png 720w, https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Government-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4742\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4742\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4744\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4744\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4744 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mass-media.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mass-media.png 564w, https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mass-media-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-best-social-bookmark\"><ul class=\"socials\"><li class=\"oknotizie\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oknotizie.virgilio.it\/post.html.php?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4740&title=Do You Trust Government &#038; Media Now?\" title=\"Share this on oknotizie\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"twitter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Do You Trust Government &#038; Media Now? &raquo; https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4740\" title=\"Share this on twitter\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"delicious\"><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4740&title=Do You Trust Government &#038; Media Now?\" title=\"Share this on del.icio.us\"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to these recent Gallup polls, American&#8217;s trust in government is at an all time low. The same can be said for American&#8217;s trust in media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,404,400],"tags":[122,116,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4748,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/4748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}