Some of the latest reactions to Can You Trust The Media?
Peter Preston “Trust just got busted”
Martin Belam “Can You Trust A Media Blogger?”
Steve Borriss “Trust in media is about credibility not truth, placing journalists at a disadvantage vs. bloggers”
Philip Young “Trust and Flat Earth News”
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.
So not everyone gets the book, and I — like an idiot — went in prepared to defend the detail without explaining the big picture, utterly ignoring everything I would ever tell people…
Accused of nihilism (by Andrew Gilligan) I was slightly embarrassed. My first great literary love was Fathers and Sons, Turgenev’s novel which gave nihilism to the world.
But no, I’m no Bazarov…
So tonight is the launch event for my book, timed brilliantly on the eve of a contest that will decide the future happiness of a great swathe of Londoners. Not the mayoral elections of course, but the Chelsea vs Liverpool Champions League semi-final. Continue reading
CNN bills itself as the most trusted name in news. Director-General Mark Thompson reckons public trust is the life-blood of the BBC. Politicians and TV presenters wail and tear their clothes in public at the public’s loss of trust in the media. “Woe is us,” wails the collective cry from the journalism profession, “they don’t believe.”
Media organisations want to wallow in trust like hippos in mud. They want to roll in it until they’re covered from head to toe. When it dries up, thanks to dodgy editing on a royal documentary promo or phoney competitions, the mud cracks and it’s a “crisis”. Continue reading
Stephen Pritchard, readers’ editor of The Observer, reviews Can You Trust The Media? Continue reading