Research shows that a third of Americans trust news media. This was a staggering decline half a century ago, with over 70% of American adults who believed reporters were fair and honest.
Certainly, some of them could be attributed to the decentralisation of media (the factor in the rise of social media) and the bipartisan nature of culture over the past decade or so. But these things alone – it’s not that there’s a lack of confidence people have in the news media while donating factors.
He rose to fame when he (failed) tried to effectively disprove Jesus’ evidence, becoming a Christian, and gained fame when he recently appeared on CBN’s “Faith of Culture” podcast, he argued that he motivated and that it has not changed towards journalism.
“It makes me so sad,” Strobel talks about the state of journalism today, explaining that in college, “his job was to report the news,” he was “trained to tell both sides of the story.”
When he asked journalism students today why he pursued a career in news media, Strobel said he often hears “want to change the world.”
“It wasn’t our motivation, it wasn’t our role,” he said of his time as an investigative reporter. “Our role was to report the news and communicate it to both sides.”
The author of “The Case of Christ” recalls his years as a legal reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where as an atheist he often reported on abortion stories. At the time he was stubbornly aborted (and was even allowed to help women arrange abortions while he was in college).
“I’ve written millions of articles about lawsuits that include abortion, and what do you speculate?” he asked rhetorically. “If I read any of these articles, I told both sides, so I can’t know where I stood in the issue. And I quoted good people on both sides, and I made sure that the story wasn’t distorted in any way.
Strobel, a Christian who now has biblical life support ethics and opposes abortion, said he is concerned about the lack of Christian representation in newsrooms around the country.
Furthermore, he seems to be concerned that, as it appears to be largely written, “has lost this value of trying to convey both sides in search of objectivity.”
“Our first revision is there because how important it is our first revision,” he said. “Free press is the basis of our Republic. When we can no longer trust what is said in the Free Press, it is a very dangerous position for the Republic to enter.”
We spoke with Strobel about more about the Faith in Culture podcast. Listen now:
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