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« Wednesday « February 27, 2002
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Trusting the News
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"One of these days, someone is going to change the online news pages of the Wall Street Journal or New York Time or CNN or other major news organization, in a way that does severe damage. Maybe the false story will set off a financial panic. Or maybe it'll simply cause one company's stock to tank, enriching whoever was behind the hack. Whatever the cause, and whatever the outcome, it will damage trust. In the Digital Age, the public trust in running a prominent news operation involves more than solid reporting and editing."Ooh, starting a financial panic, based on false pretenses. That would be cool. Here, "professional" journalist Dan Gillmor sounds off in the wake of a security breach at the NY Times. He surmises the ramifications of someone getting into a major paper and actually rewriting the news, and frets that trust in the media would be lost. Wait a minute? You mean, we should trust the media? But why? Because they tell us the truths that the rich and powerful want us to hear? Where was this guy when Enron was forcing me shut off my computers last summer? Was he giving us the real story? Where was he when Dubya was ascending to the White House via voter fraud? Did he go deeper, and tell us the authentic truths? Really, now, what do journalists and the media , circa 2002, deliver that remotely demands our trust? From your silences, BoyCaught can guess your answer: nothing.
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