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Tag: Trust

  • The Trust Obsession

    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…

  • Can You Trust The Media? – review

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

  • Stretching credulity across platforms…

    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.…

  • Off topic: Crews control

    Currently reading Frederick Crews’ Follies of the Wise. If I needed a new motto for this blog it might come from him: “we do not have things to say. We acquire them in the process of working on definite problems that catch our attention.” This is from his intro to Follies: My aim in telling…