Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha said he wants journalists to return to presenting the news without injecting their opinions after the release of a recent poll about Americans’ trust in the media.
Concha said Friday on Fox & Friends First that he would love the news to return to journalists such as Walter Cronkite, Roger Mudd, David Brinkley, and Barbara Walters.
“Again, I would just love to get back to a point where like … just people who present the news without injecting their opinions into it,” Concha said. “Because as we’ve seen with Don Lemon or Terry Moran or Chuck Todd or Joy Reid, or all these people who said they were journalists are now doing podcasts from their kitchens sharing what they really feel, and what they really feel is left of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and that’s not a good thing.”
About 28% of Americans have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in the media, according to a recent Gallup poll.
Concha blamed Democrats for keeping it at this percentage.
“Most of the people keeping it at 28% are Democrats because they like what they are hearing, and it appears shingles and gas station sushi is more appealing than the American media at this point, and that distinction is completely earned,” he said.
The Gallup poll also found that 7 in 10 American adults said they have “not very much” confidence or “none at all” in the media.
Concha said the problem is that the media demeans Republicans.
“You simply have no balance, no objectivity. Every major issue is about cheering on Democrats like we’ve seen with the shutdown and demeaning Republicans as evil people,” Concha said. “The problem is more than half the country doesn’t feel that way … the only people who think the media is doing well are the people on the left because mostly people on the Left are feeding them the news.”
Concha also discussed the recent controversy surrounding a Netflix animated show and its creator, which led to Elon Musk telling his followers to cancel their Netflix subscriptions.
Musk’s post stems from conservative backlash over the Netflix animated show, Dead End: Paranormal Park, which features a transgender character. The show was canceled after two seasons in 2023.
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Concha said he doesn’t support cancel culture, but understands why parents who don’t want their children to see the show are canceling their subscriptions.
“I just don’t understand why, if you’re Netflix, just give us good programming. Give us the kind of stuff we want to watch,” Concha said. “But to go here, obviously you’re going to alienate people and as a result you’re going to hurt your business.”