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| This website is to discuss if UK quality journalism is a thing of the past, with topics: public respect for journalists; new media impact on journalism; tabloids; good /bad news; infotainment; human/public interest news; qualities of professional journalists; journalists training in the UK.To learn more, you could also click debate. |
How to Deal with the Press
by
Wendy Cope
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Journalists come out bottom in a 2005 MORI poll that asks members of the public whom they trust to tell the truth. Only 16% of adults say that they trust journalists to tell the truth, lower than 20% rated for politicians and Government Ministers. The trend in trust in British journalists has been largely unchanged over the past two decades, said MORI Social Research Institute Director Ben Page. "They have always been the least trusted people for 20 years," Mr Page added. People in Britain trust TV news more than most other European countries, but the UK print media has the least trust in Europe, he said. More from Mr Page about reasons behind the low credibility and ways to build trust.
Response from a former tabloid editor Wendy Henry: "People in surveys give answers they think they SHOULD give rather than what they OUGHT to give, ie the truth. If people really distrusted British journalists then we would not have a tabloid newspaper industry. As the old saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating!" |
Radio: Vox Pop: The public
don't trust journalists. Journalists' responses: Guardian Executive Editor:
Albert Scardino BBC 3 News Editor: Mark Barlex Mirror journalist, not identified
on request Former BBC broadcaster:
Deborah Vogel ============================= TV: Tabloids
top popularity. |
For/Against arguments: "The tabloids have been crap for 50 years and are still crap.": Jon Snow full "UK tabloids are the best and the most well-read in the world. They broke many important stories in the last 50 years." : Wendy Henry full UK journalism is losing its reputation. more Tabloids mean bad journalism. more The UK media have a tendency towards infotainment. more The quality press has shifted from objective to opinionated coverage. full The UK public want more good news. full Journalists are warned that commercial agenda could distort facts. full |