Building trust in media

Trump’s Economic Gamble: David Friedberg Predicts the Master Plan

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I don’t have any direct
line of communication to folks that are
constructing the theory and the policy
if I were to say what’s the most
masterful plan in an optimistic way of
what could be going on here what’s the
master plan I would kind of craft it as
follows tariffs aren’t being done in
isolation they’re being done along with
a coordinated policy effort to reduce
income taxes and another policy effort
to reduce government spending so those
are three actions three legs on a stool

Why Print Needs new Ground Rules

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On America This Week, Walter Kern and Matt Taibbi discussed 60 minutes‘ edit/collage of the Kamala Harris interview.

“This 60 minutes format is dead”

Walter declared the 60 minutes television format is dead because it required the good faith of the audience and the integrity of the network okay and the producers and the editors

Why Print Needs new Ground Rules:

It’s not just the 60 minutes video format.  Walter says he currently avoids print media because they can take a statement you made and make it seem that it occurred in an entirely different context than than when you made it and there’s no way you know there’s no way for the audience to tell

Solution?

Would Walter be more willing to do print media interviews on the internet, if print media agreed that they would:

  1. publish the full interview transcript and
  2. use contextual citations for all their print quotes?

Donald Trump will not protect Europe

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When Donald Trump was asked whether he would protect European countries that didn’t meet military spending requirements, Trump replied no I would not protect you.

Conservatives have been repeatedly burned by out-of-context quotations, whether by 60 minutes or elsewhere.  This quote isn’t out-of-context, but readers can gain a much better understanding if they view the video context.

  • Authors who use CiteIt build reader trust and make it easy for the reader to learn more about a quote’s context.

Did Trump call Liz Cheney a “Chicken Hawk” or Call for a Firing Squad?

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Authors who cite a quotation should share the context from the full video.  Here’s what Mary Trump’s post would look like.

“Last night, in conversation with fascist and Russian stooge Tucker Carlson, the Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States said this about Liz Cheney, somebody he considers a political enemy:”

Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.

Donald Trump Warns of a “Bloodbath!”

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Today, a lot of the media carried a quote in which Donald Trump says: if I don’t get elected it’s going to be a blood bath.  Television is seldom able to present the whole context of a quote, given space limitations. This could be an advantage for Substack writers because CiteIt enables interested readers to have the option of pursuing a quote’s context without commandeering the attention of all viewers.

CiteIt becomes like an advanced form of footnotes that works across:

  1. text,
  2. audio, and
  3. video.