Kim Williams uses his speech to insist all journalists need to earn the trust of their audiences, or risk being consigned to history.
ABC chair Kim Williams quotes JD Vance as he warns of sliding trust in media and its impact on democracies ABC chair Kim Williams quotes JD Vance as he warns of sliding trust in media and its impact on democracies ABC chair Kim Williams has warned that democracy is at risk if Australia does not have a strong media industry.
He also lamented the often angry tone of public discourse, with a nod to the rhetoric of former US president Donald Trump as an example of where debate has gone off the rails. In his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, the vice-presidential candidate said only 6 per cent of American voters believed the media was "very trustworthy".
Citing the above passage, Mr Williams said he wondered how far Mr Vance had changed his views in the eight years since the book's publication, but those words held true. "Tempting as it is to want to take sides, I think all of us in the media and cultural institutions generally must resist.""When the truth is relative, democracy is imperilled," he said.
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