Can Media Regain Public Trust?

This week’s reading brought up the question, Can media regain public trust? This was an interesting question because in the reading both sides of the argument gave pretty good reasons why or why not, but in my opinion I feel that the media has dug themselves a hole they won't be able to get out of and no matter what they do they will always have the reputation of being fake and misleading. Media now-a-days isn't about telling the truth or straight facts, but rather they are more interested in trying to get more viewers and up their ratings. By increasing their ratings and viewers this means that they will earn more money, which is what every media outlet wants, so when it comes to telling the news the media will stretch the truth and even tell lies to make the news sound more interesting. With the media constantly doing this I do not see the public ever trusting the media again because of their poor reputation. Also I don't even think that the media would even plan on changing their ways to regain the public’s trust because if they did they would probably lose a ton of money. Even if the news is untrue people will still rather watch that then watch a boring, but also more factual show. For the media to even have a shot at regaining the public’s trust it would have to do a complete makeover of how they portray the news. Every newscast, magazine, newspaper, and internet website would all have to agree to portray the news in a factual and truthful way so that all fake news would be abolished from existence. After all this I still believe that the media would have a hard time regaining the public’s trust, but after time it might have a slight chance. Hopefully one day the media will change its ways so that they are broadcasting factual and trustworthy news, but only time will tell and to tell you the truth I don't think we will be seeing any change soon.