Media Face Loss of Public Trust, Financial Crises as Editors Abandon Quest for Objective Truth

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Contact: Henry Herrera

Media Face Loss of Public Trust, Financial Crises as Editors Abandon Quest for Objective Truth

January 20, 2025 – Journalism has long been guided by ethical principles of accuracy, balance, and fairness. That aspiration was shattered by Katherine Maher, CEO of National Public Radio (NPR), who admitted in 2022, “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that is getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done…. I’m certain that the truth exists for you. And probably for the person sitting next to you. But this may not be the same truth.” (1)

In other words, the cherished ideal of “objective truth” was replaced with squishy notions of “my truth” and “your truth.”

No surprise, Maher’s comments marked a dramatic decline in daily listenership, down from 60 million in 2020 to 42 million in March of last year. NPR has now become engulfed in layoffs, financial turbulence, and internal strife (2), as the storied media channel has been accused of liberal bias and continued to promote the feminist perspective on a variety of topics.

In 2023, NPR published an article about the effects of the COVID epidemic on female health workers, seeking to portray women as inveterate victims (3), but ignoring the fact that men had a far higher risk than women of dying from COVID (4). This past November, NPR ran a glowing story about the South Korean 4B sex movement that was designed to “boycott men.” (5)

The one issue that is consistently misreported by NPR and other media channels is domestic violence. Based on his analysis of 343 scholarly investigations in over 40 countries, researcher Martin Fiebert concluded the studies demonstrate that “women are as physically aggressive as men (or more) in their relationships with their spouses or opposite-sex partners.” (6)

But media accounts continue to be wedded to the one-sided, man-as-perpetrator, female-as-victim scenario.

For example, NPR ran a story titled, “Domestic violence is now recognized as a leading cause of traumatic brain injury.” (7) The article noted, “about 1 in 3 women has, at some point in her life, experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner,” but gave no corresponding numbers for male victims.

Similarly over a 10-year period, the Washington Post published a series of feature articles that systematically ignored domestic violence against men (8).

In England, The Guardian is similarly biased. For example, the newspaper published an article last June that made this inflammatory claim: “Met chief says millions of men are danger to women and girls in England and Wales” (9). The statement was based on a yet-to-be released – and therefore unverifiable – police report.

In Australia, the Guardian Australia ran an article last May about a government program designed to curb “social media influencers spreading harmful gender stereotypes or condoning violence against women.” The article made no mention of female-driven misandry or the all-too-common feminist exhortation to “Kill All Men.” (10)

Not surprisingly, the public is now seeing through the ruse and abandoning traditional media outlets in droves.

Last week it was reported that the Washington Post lost nearly 90% of its online traffic over the past four years, costing the storied newspaper about $100 million in subscription and ad revenue in 2024 alone (11).

Media channels now face a difficult decision: Continue to parrot the feminist domestic violence perspective and face loss of public trust and widescale layoffs. Or restore the time-honored ideals of accuracy, balance, and fairness.

The Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance – DAVIA — consists of 176 member organizations from 37 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. DAVIA seeks to ensure that domestic violence and abuse polices are science-based, family-affirming, and sex-inclusive. https://endtodv.org/coalitions/davia/

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