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In 1972, 68% of Americans trusted the press. Today, it's 28%.What happened? The Death of Honest Journalism traces the full arc of the collapse-from the golden age of Murrow and Cronkite to the AI-generated news feeds of today. It names names, follows money, and maps the structural forces that turned the world's most powerful free press into a trust wasteland. This is not a left-wing book. This is not a right-wing book. This is a book about what breaks when the infrastructure of truth collapses and nobody rebuilds it. Inside, you'll discover: How classified ads funded democracy-and how Craigslist destroyed the model overnight Why hedge funds bought newspapers they intended to kill How cable news replaced reporting with performance-on both sides What algorithms actually optimize for (hint: it's not accuracy) Why 50 million Americans now live in ""news deserts"" with zero local journalism What the AI content flood means for the future of truth What survived the collapse-and what you can do about it Grounded in Gallup data, Pew research, academic studies, and the real stories of communities that lost their newspapers, The Death of Honest Journalism is the nonpartisan autopsy of a broken information system-and a field guide for citizens who refuse to settle for the wreckage. From the author of The Collapse of Critical Thinking, Who Owns Your Mind?, and The Mirror at the End of the World.

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