The answer is surprisingly simple, and devilishly slippery for hundreds of millions of Americans. There is a confused feeling that something is wrong in the general function of our news and information system. Lies and mystification have been the standard fare for too many years, and people are increasingly appalled at what they are fed. This lack of trust is based on a belief that our systems of news are not trustworthy, that they are somehow malfunctioning, that they are shot through with incompetence, and that sometimes they present blatant lies as if they were truth. News is still a fundamental part of the healthy functioning of society.
Democracy is an impossibility without a good communications network.
It is information that helps human race to live as free beings. Few people would take issue with that. And there is the nub of the matter. But don t despair. Like, for example, why health care is not recognized as a basic human right in the United States.