Please forgive the shameless self-promotion but Can You Trust The Media? picked up a review at the Guardian.
Phone-in voting scams, dodgy trailer editing, silly-season reports of great white sharks cruising off English beaches — the media apparently has a problem with trust. How to win it back?
Wrong question, says Adrian Monck: trust is something that obtains between individuals, and no one should be so silly as to “trust” a large newstertainment organisation, which is mainly in the business of gathering people in one place to be advertised at. Consumers ought to be sceptical.
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