{"id":3619,"date":"2024-12-10T07:06:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T07:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2024-12-10T07:06:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T07:06:34","slug":"media-in-order-torestore-public-trust-the-two-american-millionaires-want-to-reform-the-newspaper-causing-the-press-dissatisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=3619","title":{"rendered":"media: in order to\u201cRestore Public Trust\u201d, the two American millionaires want to reform the newspaper, causing the press dissatisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technology billionaire Andrew Wong and the founder of Amazon have Jeff Bezos to \u201cRestore Trust in the news media\u201d, the Financial Times reported Friday, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, two well-known American media, will be overhauled in the near future. The financial times said this had\u201cAlarmed news advocates\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Bessus, who bought the post in 2013, was once credited with turning around the newspaper’s fortunes, the report said. However, in recent years, the Washington Post has been facing reader loss and financial difficulties. At a conference in early December, Bessus said he had \u201cA bunch of ideas\u201d to restore trust in the news media and was working to address the problems faced by traditional media outlets. Huang Xinxiang, owner of the Los Angeles Times, also revealed on a radio political program that he had been secretly developing an artificial intelligence\u201cBias meter\u201d that could be attached to news reports, so that the reader can distinguish the degree of bias when reading the article. \u201cReaders can click on a button to get the ‘pros and Cons’ of the story and then post their own comments,\u201d he explained, adding that, news editors must make a clear distinction between news and their own opinions of the news.<\/p>\n

Notably, both Hwang and Bessus withdrew the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post’s support for Democratic presidential candidate Harriss a few weeks before the election, the decision provoked a backlash from two media newsrooms. To \u201cCreate some degree of balance,\u201d Wong recently appointed Scott Jennings, who served in the Bush Bush administration, to the Los Angeles Times editorial board. However, the move did not quell the controversy, but has triggered more discussion about the independence and impartiality of the press.<\/p>\n

Media and practitioners expressed dissatisfaction with Huang’s behavior. The director of the Nieman Journalism Foundation at Harvard University said Huang’s actions were against his own staff. \u201cHe announced to the public his lack of trust in his staff and plans to independently monitor and grade them in public. It’s not healthy for an already fragile news industry,\u201d said Friedrich Schiller, former chief executive of NPR, describing it as \u201cEveryone’s worst nightmare about a billionaire boss.\u201d.<\/p>\n

The report also mentioned that the current U. S. Society and Public Trust in the news media is at a historical low point. Polls show that less than a third of Americans in the 2024 say they trust the media \u201cVery\u201d or \u201cVery\u201d to report the news fairly and accurately, that is down from 70 per cent in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Huang Xinxiang was born in South Africa of Chinese descent, and later studied in the United States. He has achieved success in medicine and business, and is known as\u201cThe richest doctor in the world.\u201d He bought the Los Angeles Times and Kay Boyle in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Technology billionaire Andrew Wong and the founder of Amazon have Jeff Bezos to \u201cRestore Trust in the news media\u201d, the Financial Times reported Friday, the Los Angeles Times and the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,257],"tags":[1311,337,1310,1312,1309,506],"views":51,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}