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Trust in the media
BillieTheBot
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Journalists and politicians - they both dislike and mutually fear the other, but they both need each other. What else do they have in common? Trust levels in the two are at rock-bottom. Earlier this week, Geoff Hoon said that the UK has the most "aggressive, dismissive and intrusive" media in the developed world.
The Leader of the House speaks: "The biggest spinners in our society are journalists. You only have to look at any day's newspapers to see that. From the experience of dealing with a lot of specialists, the specialists are by far the worst. They will take a half story somewhere and they will turn it into a controversy or a scandal, really without any effort at all, because they are having to justify their existence to their news editors who are pretty sceptical as to whether they are worth the money...
"We do not trust journalists and broadcasters to use that access fairly because we believe that what would happen is that they would simply turn up on every corner and thrust a camera into someone's face at a time when, frankly, they didn't want that kind of intrusion..." >> Details >>
In the interests of fairness, I've looked at the websites of all the national daily newspapers for their reaction and the only thing I found was a brief extract from a piece that Simon Carr wrote in The Independent yesterday. It's such a small extract it simply isn't worth bothering copying. This was the only link I could find. There seems to be a near-blackout on this. A story about the media does not appear in the media. No surprise, really.
Do you trust the media to report politics and world events fairly? Or do you share Geoff Hoon's reservations? I've done a poll to get a rough idea what people on the boards think, let us know how you voted.
The Leader of the House speaks: "The biggest spinners in our society are journalists. You only have to look at any day's newspapers to see that. From the experience of dealing with a lot of specialists, the specialists are by far the worst. They will take a half story somewhere and they will turn it into a controversy or a scandal, really without any effort at all, because they are having to justify their existence to their news editors who are pretty sceptical as to whether they are worth the money...
"We do not trust journalists and broadcasters to use that access fairly because we believe that what would happen is that they would simply turn up on every corner and thrust a camera into someone's face at a time when, frankly, they didn't want that kind of intrusion..." >> Details >>
In the interests of fairness, I've looked at the websites of all the national daily newspapers for their reaction and the only thing I found was a brief extract from a piece that Simon Carr wrote in The Independent yesterday. It's such a small extract it simply isn't worth bothering copying. This was the only link I could find. There seems to be a near-blackout on this. A story about the media does not appear in the media. No surprise, really.
Do you trust the media to report politics and world events fairly? Or do you share Geoff Hoon's reservations? I've done a poll to get a rough idea what people on the boards think, let us know how you voted.
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Trust in the media 19 votes
Yes - I believe nearly all they say
10%
2 votes
Yes - but I've got my criticisms too
5%
1 vote
I'm 50/50 on this one
21%
4 votes
No - I'm sceptical of most reporting
42%
8 votes
No - I don't believe a word of it
21%
4 votes
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