'Have we journalists have been too elitist?' Journalism Soc. honoree calls for introspection, reform
Channel: NewsCraft
Date: 2017-09-10

Former editor-in-chief of Business Week, Stephen Shepherd, surprised the Society of Professional Journalists when being inducted as a  Fellow of the Society, he attributed the public's low surveyed trust in the media to the media's own practices. This was in contrast to speeches by both the outgoing President and incoming President who attributed the problem to US Pres.Trump's denouncing bias in the mainstream media's negative reporting on his election and office.