Comments on: The decline of newspapers: nothing to do with journalism again http://adrianmonck.com/2008/10/the-decline-of-newspapers-nothing-to-do-with-journalism-again/ views on the news business Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:58:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: First post, on the crisis of journalism - kahos.net http://adrianmonck.com/2008/10/the-decline-of-newspapers-nothing-to-do-with-journalism-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1314 First post, on the crisis of journalism - kahos.net Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:08:53 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=1608#comment-1314 [...] Jeff Jarvis, Paul Farhi, Roy Greenslade  and Adrian Monck have been discussing about the crisis of newspaper journalism and whose fault it is. Actually, [...] […] Jeff Jarvis, Paul Farhi, Roy Greenslade  and Adrian Monck have been discussing about the crisis of newspaper journalism and whose fault it is. Actually, […]

]]> By: Journalism isn’t the problem - it’s the news business | Charlie Beckett http://adrianmonck.com/2008/10/the-decline-of-newspapers-nothing-to-do-with-journalism-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1287 Journalism isn’t the problem - it’s the news business | Charlie Beckett Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:53:50 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=1608#comment-1287 [...] think that those like Paul Farhi of the Washington Post and Roy Greenslade of the Guardian and Adrian Monck of City University who are ranged against Jarvis may be fighting the wrong battle. Perhaps Jeff is, [...] […] think that those like Paul Farhi of the Washington Post and Roy Greenslade of the Guardian and Adrian Monck of City University who are ranged against Jarvis may be fighting the wrong battle. Perhaps Jeff is, […]

]]> By: Adrian Monck http://adrianmonck.com/2008/10/the-decline-of-newspapers-nothing-to-do-with-journalism-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1237 Adrian Monck Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:47:10 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=1608#comment-1237 Older more affluent people are, ironically, the least trusting (or least credulous/more sceptical) of news media, but the heaviest consumers of it. So on Jeff's logic we need more sceptics! BTW, for more on trust, see Gronke and Cook, "The Dimensions of Institutional Trust: How Distinct Is Public Confidence in the Media?" <a href="http://people.reed.edu/~gronkep/docs/MIDW2001.pdf" rel="nofollow">[pdf]</a>. Older more affluent people are, ironically, the least trusting (or least credulous/more sceptical) of news media, but the heaviest consumers of it.

So on Jeff’s logic we need more sceptics!

BTW, for more on trust, see Gronke and Cook, “The Dimensions of Institutional Trust: How Distinct Is Public Confidence in the Media?” [pdf].

]]> By: robin hunt http://adrianmonck.com/2008/10/the-decline-of-newspapers-nothing-to-do-with-journalism-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1236 robin hunt Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:33:55 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=1608#comment-1236 "And if you want to look at newspapers’ relationship with readers don’t crank out trust! Trust in media [and, no, I didn’t plug the book on his blog] is positively correlated with consumption, so it pretty much tells you what you already know." Does this mean that older people, those who learnt the web rather than grew up with it, trust newspapers and younger don't? I agree with you about the blanket Moral Failure argument looking a little McCain today, but studying very closely the patterns of online consumption now taking place I do worry about trust levels. Not so much an issue for the journalists, as for the readers. Could you explain your thesis a little more? “And if you want to look at newspapers’ relationship with readers don’t crank out trust! Trust in media [and, no, I didn’t plug the book on his blog] is positively correlated with consumption, so it pretty much tells you what you already know.”

Does this mean that older people, those who learnt the web rather than grew up with it, trust newspapers and younger don’t? I agree with you about the blanket Moral Failure argument looking a little McCain today, but studying very closely the patterns of online consumption now taking place I do worry about trust levels. Not so much an issue for the journalists, as for the readers. Could you explain your thesis a little more?

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