Can Media Regain Public Trust?

Many studies show that people don't trust the media. According to Pew Research Center, it shows that only 29% people and viewers believe that the news get their facts straight. Bu the media is a mixture of a bunch of things. It is filled with news, facts, opinions, and analysis's. Many articles and writing from journalist are based on their opinions using facts they gather to support their sides. The results show that only 18% of the people believe that the press deals fairly with all sides of an issue. So don't you blame the public to no trust the media, when they are trying to side you. Believe it or not the press and journalist like to rely and favor the high government officials because they work in a high professional culture just like them. Sad to say, 71% of the people see the press as a necessary watchdog on the government, this doesn't sound right does it? They are basically trying to use the government for answers.
I personally believe either way if you try to believe the Media or not, you'll always receive some kind of false information. Journalist know how to make you side with them on some arguments, because they are smart like that. They use the Normative Theory which deals with the ideal ways to structure and operate a news system. Using this, journalist use facts, specific details, investigation notes, and analysis's to prove to their audience that they are right.
Journalism is a thing that uses sources to gain control over some democracy. Michael Schudson writes a book, "Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press," and this provides us with some good feedback. In the book he refers that good journalism needs seven things for the news for the use of democracy. You start out with information, investigation, analysis, creating social empathy, facilitating a public forum, mobilization, and end with publicizing a representative democracy. Schudson then argues that journalist are obsessed with facts and events, they never focus on their own power over the situation. They also focus on confrontation and the outsider status, but yet these are foundations that must be removed if the journalist want to gain trust from their audience.
No matter if the journalist care about if the audience believe them or not, they aren't free people. Journalist aren't free agents, they are constrained by a set of complex institutional relations which leads them to opinions and idea's, especially on high government officials. This is proof of why they get so wound up on them. But i believe if we didn't have media, then there would be no way they the people would know what is happening around the world. Media is a tool to store and deliver information to what is to be told.