Who can you trust?
No, I'm not talking about that great Morcheeba song and album. I'm, of course, talking about the most recent study where we the media try to prove that we're more important than bloggers.
Catching up on my blog reading this morning, Tom over at Random Acts of Reality let me know about aforementioned study, and certain issues that he might have in trusting the mainstream media. Note: My friends over at BBC News actually do read blogs and fixed the story to name the right Zoe.
Chris and I had a quick chat via e-mail about this study, and he said:
I mean people don't trust "blogs" - which blogs? It's like asking people if they trust "bid up TV" as a news source and then saying that therefore people don't trust TV News
Personally, my view: "Hmmm...I wonder if it's that time of the year when the media are setting their ad rates?"
Seriously, I'm a journalist and a news junkie. There are journalists who I trust, and journalists who frankly I don't trust any farther than I can throw them, which for some of them isn't very far.
Trust blogs? For one, blogs are a technology to me. So, asking me if I trust blogs is sorta like asking me if I trust a dish washing machine. Hold tight for an analogy shift. Now, I trust a dishing washing machine to wash my dishes, but I don't trust it, say, to advise me on my finances. Bloggers. I trust Tom to tell me what it's like to be an ambulance driver in London. But I might not trust Tom to tell me about the Supreme Court of the United States like I trust the folks at ScotusBlog to tell me their view about the Supreme Court. (Scotus=Supreme Court of the United States. Get it?) But Tom never advertised himself as an expert on the Supreme Court so it doesn't affect how much trust I have in Tom. Make sense?
At any rate, what do you think? Who can you trust? Who do you trust?
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I trust God, My Family, and The BBC.
I trust God, Family, and the BBC.
I think most people trust blogs more than they trust politicians.
And on that subject, what do think our chances are of replacing the Deputy Primeminister with a cheaper one from Poland?
I'm not quite sure what Trust as got to do with it. And no im not a Tina Turner fan either.
Information, whether its aim is to entertain, to inform etc is all subject to scutiny. Whose right whose wrong? Does it really matter? The stuff we read in the papers (tabloid and broadsheet) is always one persons view and whether we like it or not, its always bias. Always.
Tom's blog is bias, its a first person account, but thats the whole point of it. A real (non BBC Trauma glittery) view of actually what ambulance life is like and the shit you have to put up with.
Pick any story you like on the BBC news website. You are told one version of events (usually in fav of family) if someone has died, you dont get told that this person may of been a right 'see you next tuesday' . You never see all sides of the story. In which case trust is pretty irrelevent.
Blogs are one persons view on the world, are they right/ wrong? well you cant disprove eitherway. But what we all want, entertainment, pure and simple.
Anyway who says people dont "trust" blogsites?
Very fitting! "The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them." Joseph Campbell