Category: Can You Trust The Media?

  • 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?

  • Invitation to a book launch

    The launch debate for Can You Trust The Media? will be at City’s Cass Business School, on Wednesday, April 30 (6 for 6.30pm). Sarah Montague of Today will be taking the chair. Andrew Gilligan, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Charlie Beckett and myself will be panelling. Q&A to follow. You are – of course – cordially invited.

  • Can You Trust The Media? – Mistakes and corrections

    The plan to set up a blog to record all the mistakes in CYTTM has – alas – been on the backburner (too busy). So here’s one mistake from line 16, p58 [HT: Jack Shafer].