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"Poll Results – Now that Walter Cronkite has passed on, who is America's most trusted newscaster?" TIME. http://www.timepolls.com/hppolls/archive/poll_results_417.html

This poll by TIME online polled 9409 people asking who America's most trusted newscaster is now that Walter Cronkite has passed on. The results overwhelmingly favored Comedy Central's host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart.

These poll results demonstrate an interesting shift in America's view of 'trustworthiness.' The fact that Americans place more trust in a comedic news reporter who demonstrates clear biases and includes fictious news intermingled with factual news indicates a significant shift in how we view news. I find this shift in our view of trustworthiness to be closely tied with the idea that citizens now have a right to comment and even influence news (via internet posts and commentary and blogs, etc.). The media culture seems to be shifting from one of serious journalism to a more casual interface that allows comedy and opinion to mix with information and leaves the onus of responsibility on the viewer or reader to discern truth from fiction.

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tagged future jon_stewart media news newscaster trust by codhner ...on 23-JUL-09

Darling, Damon. "Get the Tech Scuttlebutt! It Might Even Be True - NYTimes.com" NYTimes.com. June 6, 2009.

This article from NYTimes.com discusses the issues of ethics in news/gossip websites that fail to verify their stories before publishing them. Darling uses the case when two online rumor/news sites, Gawker and TechCrunch, published false stories about Apple buying Twitter to discuss the larger issue of journalistic integrity on the internet.

Darling's article highlights an issue of great concern in journalism today: accountability. His article scathingly criticizes the authors of Gawker and TechCrunch's false rumor articles, but also admits that rumors play a vital role in news. Darling doesn't address the value of being the first source for a story, the value of a new story. Newspapers have always had to balance immediacy of reporting with accuracy of storytelling, just as rumor sites do today. But, as Darling admits, "credibility may be a less-important strategy for the blogs at this stage," and time will tell whether they turn towards more accountability in reporting or not.

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tagged blog future internet journalism media news online trust by codhner ...on 23-JUL-09
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tagged bioregion conservation ecology land management pennsylvania preservation regional trust by katkins ...on 17-JUN-08
tagged class conservation ecology land management penn pennsylvania preservation trust by katkins ...on 17-JUN-08

This place is an amazing place to hike.

Founded in 1970, the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust is a nonprofit land trust headquartered in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. The Trust is staffed by professionals and volunteers dedicated to the stewardship of the lands that are protected by the Trust in its Pennypack Preserve natural area. The Trust offers a variety of programs and services including, but not limited to:

  • Trails in the Preserve open free to the public to explore
    and enjoy the natural world all year long
  • Professionally managed natural area restoration
  • Urban deer herd management
  • Volunteer training
  • Meeting facilities for community organizations
  • Professional education and internships
tagged birding conservation ecological ecology hike hiking huntingdon land pa pennsylvania preservation restoration trails trust valley by katkins ...on 16-JUN-08
"In Google We Trust? [computer file]" The journal of electronic publishing [1080-2711] 9.1 (2006). 1-.
 
Trust, authority, and reputation are central to scholarly publishing, but the trust model of the Internet is almost antithetical to the trust model of academia. Publishers have been so preoccupied with the brute mechanics of moving content to the online world that they have virtually ignored the challenge that the Internet trust model poses to the scholarly publisher. Publishers can learn much about approaches to handling Internet trust from the actions of major online players outside the publishing industry. Publishers should also benefit from watching the trust models that are being experimented with in the nascent realm of social software applications. Publishers once led the way in establishing the apparatus of trust during the transition from manuscript to print culture in early modern Europe. Ultimately, publishers should again take the lead in helping to establish new mechanisms of trust in what could reasonably be described as "the early modern Internet."
tagged acrl collaboration publishing social_networking toread trust by laallen ...on 18-DEC-06
Delattre, Edwin J. . Education and the public trust : the imperative for common purposes / Edwin J. Delattre ; foreword by William J. Bennett. [0896331148 (alk. paper) : ] Washington, D.C. : Ethics and Public Policy Center ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by arrangement with National Book Network, c1988.
Call#: Van Pelt Library LA217 .D44 1988


tagged Public Trust by vedantha ...on 20-SEP-06