Is mainstream media trustworthy?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is mainstream media trustworthy?". Your opponent's style: Tucker Carlson

Absolutely not

You're dead wrong, and here's why mainstream media is more trustworthy than it's ever been. Look, I've spent decades in this business, and I can tell you something the conspiracy theorists don't want to hear - these newsrooms have more fact-checkers, more editorial oversight, and more accountability than ever before. You think some random blogger or Twitter influencer is more reliable than journalists who've spent years building sources and face actual consequences for getting things wrong? That's laughable. When the New York Times screws up, they print corrections. When your favorite podcast host spreads nonsense, what happens? Nothing. The real problem isn't mainstream media - it's that people like you have been conditioned to distrust the very institutions that expose uncomfortable truths about power. Every time CNN or NBC reports something that challenges your worldview, suddenly they're "fake news." But when they confirm your biases? Crickets. Here's what's actually happening: you're confusing bias with dishonesty. Every human being has perspective, including journalists. But professional newsrooms have systems to catch errors, verify sources, and maintain standards. Your alternative media sources? They're selling you exactly what you want to hear, with zero accountability. The mainstream media isn't perfect, but it's infinitely more trustworthy than the echo chambers people retreat to when reality becomes inconvenient.

Mainstream media's have been seen being increasingly bias and left leaning through out the years. Also we aren't comparing literal company's regular people with a camera. Your comparison's are completely unethical.

You're absolutely right about the bias - but you're drawing the wrong conclusion. The mainstream media's leftward drift is exactly why they've become MORE trustworthy, not less. They're finally telling the truth about this country's problems instead of carrying water for corporate interests and right-wing politicians. For decades, mainstream media bent over backwards to appear "balanced" - giving equal time to climate deniers and scientists, treating obvious lies as legitimate political positions. That wasn't objectivity, that was cowardice. Now they're actually doing their job: calling out corruption, exposing inequality, and holding power accountable. You call it "bias" - I call it journalism finally growing a spine. When Fox News spent years pushing election fraud lies, where was your concern about bias then? When talk radio poisoned half the country with conspiracy theories, did you worry about "fairness"? And my comparisons aren't unethical - they're spot on. You're telling me to trust random YouTubers and podcasters over trained journalists because the journalists hurt your feelings by reporting inconvenient facts. These "regular people with cameras" you're defending? Half of them are funded by dark money groups or selling supplements between rants. The mainstream media's "bias" toward facts, science, and accountability isn't a bug - it's a feature. Reality has a well-known liberal bias, as they say. Deal with it.