“60 Minutes” reporter Lesley Stahl admitted she feels “very dark” about the future of a free press considering President-elect Donald Trump is back in office.
Stahl attended an event at the 92NY Center for Culture and the Arts with columnist Peggy Noonan in November, where the topic was a reflection on the 2024 presidential election.
During their conversation, they lamented the decline in trust and attention to the mainstream media.
“The press is freaking out,” Stahl said.
“Yes, absolutely,” Noonan replied, although she argued that this has been a common attitude over the past 20 years. “Nothing will stop you from being a free press.”
“You really are a sunny person, aren’t you?” Stahl remarked. “I’m very worried about the press, extremely worried about the press.”
Stahl noted that legacy media continues to have record low levels of trust “down there with the lawyers,” largely due to people like Trump and Elon Musk insisting “legacy media is dead.”
Stahl added, “But it’s kind of, kind of a beat right now. And I don’t know how to recover. I’m too dark for that.”
Noonan added other issues contributing to the media legacy war, such as the rise of technology, and was pessimistic about the future.
“We’re talking about something so fundamental that you don’t want to say, ‘Well, we’ll see.’ Or maybe, ‘The world is going to end, we’ll see.’ But if America loses freedom of the press and freedom of speech, it would be the beginning of losing everything,” she said.
In October, a Gallup poll found that for the third year in a row, Americans had a historically low view of the press with just 31% expressing a “somewhat” or “fair amount” of trust in the media to report the news fairly. fair and accurate.
The same poll found that 36% of Americans did not trust the media, while another 33% had “not much” trust in the press.
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