Building trust in media

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 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.