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The average reader doesn't know how they becam...

2010-10-20T21:13:33.526-10:00

The average reader doesn't know how they became players. These all are great to know about it. In all these there are so many things which is great.
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Hi Guy's, I think average readers/viewers, tho...

2010-02-03T18:07:26.368-10:00

Hi Guy's,
I think average readers/viewers, though skeptical, can differentiate between quality reporting and noise -- even if the Pew survey doesn't.

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Hi, here readers/viewers, though skeptical, can di...

2009-10-23T20:38:26.039-10:00

Hi,
here readers/viewers, though skeptical, can differentiate between quality reporting and noise -- even if the Pew survey doesn't.Good Work Keep it up.....

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The decline in the trust of media accuracy may be ...

2009-09-18T14:41:38.098-10:00

The decline in the trust of media accuracy may be due to the media taking on aspects of blogging. Just In Time writing has surely increased the number of articles with factual errors, misspellings, juvenile style and unconscious biases.

Perhaps someone could compare news stories from ten and twenty years ago, evaluating them for accuracy and reading level.

There are fewer editors and fewer good writers doing more work. This is inevitably going to hurt quality.

And with comments on newspaper articles now, savvy or bilious readers can vent their frustration about this word or that sentence. This undercuts a paper's authority.

There's also a terrible habit that many readers have discovered.

Some partisan think tank puts out a press release and a media outlet writes a story based around it. Even if responsible writers are at work and get other perspectives, often the source's desired framing of the issue succeeds.

ProgressNow and Ethics Watch are two Colorado groups I consider good at manipulating the local media. The average reader doesn't know how they became players. He does know that these groups can set the agenda, but his own favorites can't.

Thanks for sharing this John. That's a really ...

2009-09-18T03:08:14.756-10:00

Thanks for sharing this John. That's a really good point I hadn't thought about.

To Scott's point though, I think average readers/viewers, though skeptical, can differentiate between quality reporting and noise -- even if the Pew survey doesn't.

When I heard you say that at SaveTheNews last nigh...

2009-09-17T07:03:36.269-10:00

When I heard you say that at SaveTheNews last night, I thought, "There's a blog topic!" Glad you wrote it up.

You are on to something there, but I think the other part of the answer is that the "media" has expanded to include crappy bloggers, more screaming blather on cable, etc., so the solid reporters get lumped into a pretty unsavory pile. Hence the number slippage.