Craig Newmark has this advice for journalists…

The central requirement for news organizations has to be trust. Which version of a story can be trusted? As a consumer of news, this core issue of how to establish—and maintain—trust can be frustrating. For example, when I watch interviews and can tell when a reporter knows someone is lying, I wonder why they don’t challenge the veracity of what’s been said. This happens in what I consider to be clear-cut cases in which I, the viewer, know the reporter knows that he is being lied to. The only news source that shares with viewers the video that shows this is “The Daily Show.” Often Jon Stewart will show a person saying one thing, then contradicting what he just said; similar clips are rarely, if ever, shown on broadcast news. Some reporters have told me of times when they knew someone was lying, but they couldn’t report this.

So the guy in advertising sales hates news and likes comedy…