Why don’t Americans trust the news media as much as they did 10 years ago?

Please read the instructions attached.. THIS IS A PRESENTATION ON A RESEARCH PROPOSAL on “Why Americans don’t trust the News media as much as they did 10 yeas ago”. IT IS NOT THE ACTUAL RESEARCH, JUST A PROPOSAL PRESENTATION.
My part of the presentation is to focus on the section (d) in the instructions:
(d): An account of your expected research findings.
I basically have to give an account of expected findings from this research proposal. I need you to write bullet points for the presentation of my part,,enough for 3-4 slides. How you title each segment is up to you .
Please read instructions..
Below is a brief of what each person will do in my group, My name is Magsud, my part is the last part, there is nothing there. The other parts above mine highlight what the members of the group will talk about:
Research Question:
Why don’t Americans trust the news media as much as they did 10 years ago?
——— Take China as an example
Ishanka
Introduction: Observation→・People’s trust in news media shows a
decreasing trend in the world.
・Online news websites and social media is a
main source of information specially for the young generation
Research question→ Why don’t people trust the news media anymore?
How social Science can help us answer them →(Class?)
Di
Research Design/Methodology:
Positivist Method:
Ethical Permission
Social Survey Method
Online Closed-questions Questionnaire (Specific in China)
Sample (Different age groups; Gender)
Questions:
How often do you follow the news?
What ways do you use to adopt the news?
How much do you trust TV/newspaper/radio news?
How much do you trust online media news
Are you able to identify whether a news item is the truth or not?
When you specifically assess the credibility of the content of a news item, how important are the factors?
What makes you think that the trustworthiness of today’s media news is declining
What factors are more important when you are judging the credibility of news on the digital/social media platform?
Komolika
Ethical Issues
Tribes’ news
consent
Methodological Limitation:
Bias:
Country
(Different social media platforms: The information received by the population can vary from country to country.)
(Different stance of news — So what is truth?)
Political parties
Racism
(Limitation): Education & Career background
Practical problems
Following to Di, the problems we meet are:
– It’s hard to collect the information of elder people groups.
– Difficult to guarantee data quality.
– TBD…
Magsud
Expected Findings (TBD)