“Nowadays, people can go to all sorts of different sources for the news, and they’re much more questioning about what we’re saying,” says Emma Tucker at WEF Davos summit.
The Wall Street Journal’s Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker reminisced about a better time when the public unquestioningly believed anything the mainstream media told them, lamenting that those days are over.
Tucker explained Friday at the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos meeting that the rise of alternative media has destroyed the corporate media’s monopoly on information.
“If you go back not that long ago, We owned the news. We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well,” Tucker said during a panel on “Defending Truth.”
“If it said it in the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times, then that was a fact. Nowadays, people can go to all sorts of different sources for the news, and they’re much more questioning about what we’re saying.”
"We owned the news. We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well."
Speaking at the WEF's annual Davos meeting, editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, laments the death of public trust in the MSM.
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“So it’s no longer good enough for us to say this is what happened, or this is the news. We almost have to explain our working. So readers expect to understand how we source stories, they want to know how we go about getting stories,” she continued.
“We have to sort of lift the bonnet as it were in a way that newspapers aren’t used to doing and explain to people what we’re doing. We need to be much more transparent about how we go about collecting the news,” Tucker added.
Her remarks track with the Davos meeting’s theme this year of “Rebuilding Trust” amid a collapse of public trust in major institutions following the Covid plandemic.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claimed at Davos that “disinformation and misinformation” were the gravest threats of 2024 and called for collaboration between governments and corporations to fight against “industrial-scale disinformation” that imperils the establishment’s official narratives.