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Worthwhile to highlight that the concern here is not primarily about declining trust but rather our reluctance as a society to critically analyse what we are served up in the media. "Intelligent skepticism" about what we are told combined with a toleration for difference would be a healthy basis for a democracy, as well as an awareness that while most journalists have integrity and work to be objective as they can be, this is not always possible. Not because they are spinning the story but because not all the facts are available. There is good journalism and at its best it is procative but written with the humility that while there are some things we know (and need to know) there is more to come. I am grateful that we are getting prominent coverage of Gaza - at considerable risk to particular journalists - but i understand that there are things which as yet we can't understand (eg. what Netayahu's decision making.

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Is there a link to something providing more detail about your 2017 survey?

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