Can You Trust The Media?
On the blogs
- The Wardman Wire
[I]t’s well worth a read: it’s wittily written (the details surrounding the Sun’s annual outing of the Shark Attack In Blighty story made me laugh out loud)…
[R]equired reading for my Media Ethics module from September…
[H]e puts succinctly on paper what we all know but rarely publicly admit: our main priority is to gain as much of the public’s time as we can, rather than inform.
Some analysts such as Nick ‘Flat Earth’ Davies blame capitalism. Others blame proprietorial influence…They all assume that journalism is about telling the unvarnished truth and that the public want to consume detailed, intelligent and unbiased versions of reality. Adrian Monck disagrees.
Can You Trust the Media? is a uniquely humane take on the question of what sort of trust we should really vest in institutions…
No academic dry text this, instead there’s lots here to interest and entertain; especially if you like well informed material about how the media operates.
