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Trump: ‘People don’t trust the media’

In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that was broadcasted tonight Republican candidate for president Donald Trump berated the reporter for continuing to address polls that shed him in a negative light instead of polls showing his upper-tier status.

“I am leading across the board,” Trump said in the interview. “And then you hit me with this poll that I didn’t see before, where oh, gee, it’s not even that kind of a poll. All i know is I have a very big group of support. And I think one of the reasons.”

“Let me tell you. The people don’t trust you and the people don’t trust the media. And I understand why,” Trump lectured Cooper.

Trump also said the American dream is “dead,” but he will revive it and “make it bigger, better and stronger than ever before.

“Let me tell you. The people don’t trust you and the people don’t trust the media. And I understand why. You know, I have always been covered, fairly, accurately because it was usually a financial press. And you know numbers are numbers and my numbers happen to be great. So, I was always sort of treated fair.

“With the media it’s, not all cases, some, some of the political media is great. And really honest. Even if they’ve don’t want to want to be, they’re really honest. But I find that 60%, 70% of the political media is really, really dishonest.”

Only 2% of young Americans trust media

The dead wood media limps in dead last among institutions younger voters trust to “do the right thing,” according to a new and massive Harvard University survey.

In the school’s Institute of Politics poll of over 3,000 18-29-year-olds, a tiny 12 percent said they believe the do the right thing. A whopping 88 percent said “sometimes” or “never.” Just 2 percent said they trusted the media to do the right thing “all of the time,” and 39 percent said “never.”

The poll is the latest nail in the media’s coffin, a downward spiral that has resulted in fewer younger Americans reading traditional media and especially traditional platforms such as newspapers and magazines.

Source: Washington Examiner

Americans no longer trust news media

American citizens’ confidence in news media has fallen to a historical low. The Gallup polling service reports only 40% of Americans think media can report “the news fully, accurately, and fairly”.

Americans’ trust in mass media has been edging downward. Before 2004 over half of the country’s citizens shared that point of view.

According to sociologists, confidence in media falls in election years which leads to a conclusion that “something in the national elections causes scepticism in news media accuracy.”

Source: ItarTASS

Trust for Marikana victims

A trust is being set up for victims of strike-related violence in Marikana last year, a group calling itself Citizens4Marikana said on Tuesday.

“We are in the process of forming a trust for the benefit of the persons identified by the Farlam Commission [of Inquiry] as victims of the Marikana massacre, and their families,” it said in a statement.

“The aim of the trust will be to benefit the named beneficiaries in whatever way the trustees deem most appropriate… Right now that could be by providing finance for legal fees.”

In the long term, this could be used for education scholarships.

“Ultimately, how funds are spent will be determined by the trustees and we will be responsible only for raising those funds.”

The group was started on Twitter following comments about the August 16 shooting last year that left 44 people dead at Lonmin’s platinum mine in Marikana.

“Our mission is to ensure that the truth of the events at Marikana are revealed and that the victims, and their families, achieve justice,” it said.

“While we recognise the importance of the Farlam Commission, justice cannot be found… unless real recompense is made to the people most intimately affected.”

On June 21, Dali Mpofu, for the miners, told the commission that due to financial constraints, it could be his last day representing the miners. He brought an application in the High Court in Pretoria several weeks ago seeking funding, but this was dismissed. Mpofu then took the State to the Constitutional Court, asking that it pay for his legal team. The application was dismissed on Monday.

On its website, Citizens4Marikana state that Nkome Attorneys, based in Pretoria, were appointed to temporarily collect donations.

Citizens4Marikana is as a social media movement started by a group of people moved by the violence at Marikana. There was nothing political behind it, said representative Kay Sexwale, former radio presenter and niece of former human settlements minister Tokyo Sexwale.

“We are just outraged at the Marikana massacre and we feel that something has to be done,” she said.

“Nothing is cast in stone. We are not trying to steal anyone’s money. We are just collecting money for those families affected. It is about the 44 people who died in August last year.”

Citizens4Marikana was started by “random people” on social media network Twitter, including Sexwale, UN secretary general at the G8 and G20 Youth Summits in 2012 Erik De Ridder, photojournalist Greg Marinovich, and Nomboniso Gasa, who describes herself as a researcher, analyst, and public speaker. – Sapa