> 56% of Americans agree with the statement that "Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations." > News organizations have historically relied mainly on advertising income, and as those dollars flow increasingly to Google and Facebook, that has created institutional weakness that shows up in trust data. > By the numbers: 61% of Trump voters say that they trust their employer's CEO. That compares to just 28% who trust government leaders, and a mere 21% who trust journalists. > The bottom line: CEOs have long put themselves forward as the people able to upgrade America's physical infrastructure. Now it's time for them to use the trust they've built up to help rebuild our civic infrastructure. In other words, "it's not that we're lying that's causing people to think we're lying, it's because Google gets a lot of ad revenue. We can't fix this by telling the truth as a matter of policy, it can only be fixed by having corporate CEOs tell their employees to believe us." These people are so deranged that it's to the point where their thinking isn't even coherent or comprehensible. It's pure gibberish, like the writings of a schizophrenic. Although, the part about 'somebody else should use something they've painstakingly built on their own to help us out' is a familiar refrain.