Trust

I don’t often get HTML envy, but Roger Black has a damn fine looking blog. And he has a few thoughts on one of my favourite current themes - trust.

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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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Jon Friedman has a walk down ethics lane today, prompting Ken Auletta to come out with this distinctly non-counter-intuitive take on why ethical lapses occur. (And in the words of the song - “Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before.”)
“Declining circulation, falling advertising revenues, and the swooning stock value of traditional news […]

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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 […]

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

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More Can You Trust The Media? trust fodder from the Online Journalism Symposium.
A paper titled “A Mediated, Interactive Call to Action: Audience Perceptions of Credibility and Authority for a Times Journalist in Print vs. Online” picked on the NYT’s Nick Kristof and asked people to rate his credibility as a columnist and video reporter.
Guess what? He’s a […]

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