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China – the new name in trustworthy media
Having written a book about trust in the media, I tend to keep track of the endless trust polling that pours forth. Here’s the latest from TNS. When it comes to newspapers TNS observed that less than a quarter (23%) of UK respondents ‘highly trusted’ newspapers. In fact the UK gave the lowest score in…
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Political Blogs
I missed this from biz school prof Kevin Dooley back in August, 2008: [H]ow are political blogs the same or different from MSM? Through Wonkosphere, we have noticed that political blogs are consumed in much the same manner as mainstream media is, which indicates that readers treat political blogs not as separate from, but rather…
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Portrait of a journalist
The strange subtheme of David Samuels’ New Yorker portrait of John Coster-Mullen, a man obsessed with the truth about the first atomic bombs, is actually journalism itself:
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What we leave out when we write
I was first introduced to the economic concept of opportunity cost as I sat through eucharist as a young chorister, listening to a section of the liturgy that asked forgiveness for “the good we have not done.” The opportunity cost of every moral act was “the good left undone.” For Mark Twain the cost of…