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Can You Trust The Media?

Riffing on trust

May 20, 2008

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” Neil Henderson

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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The Trust Obsession

April 28, 2008

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 […]

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Stephen Pritchard, read­ers’ editor of The Observer, reviews Can You Trust The Media?

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