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