Trusting News. Palatable, Digestible, Repeatable, Regrettable?

Trust in journalism. Still complicated. Do we value connection over logic? Are we persuadable? What is the mix of facts, context, opinions? Learn from Joy Mayer

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I live in a bubble. Inside the bubble, I can drop my shoulders, take deep breaths, find humor and love, and rest. I’m creative, productive, and silly. Trust soaks the peat under the moss on the floor of my bubble. I feel it squish between toes. Ahhhhh. The bubble moves with me. I can step outside the bubble; the bubble can subtly pop and explosively vanish. Indeed, when outside the bubble, I’m a bit or much more tense. I no longer feel that trust-soaked peat between my toes. These days I see, hear, and think about trust everywhere. A dial of trust overlays almost everything as if floating on the video of my mind’s eye. I see it with family, friends, work, screens, podcasts, news. I’m frightened how low the dial of trust appears most of the time. Sometimes the dial tries to break itself, rotating lower and lower.

Introducing Joy Mayer and Trusting News

I’m a student of people, communities, leadership, health, and learning, but I’m obsessed with understanding, appreciating, strengthening trust. Goodness, Joy, I didn’t plan this introduction when we met or when we…