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.

Jack Nicholson: You Can’t Handle the Truth.

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With CiteIt, writers can evoke the Jack Nicholson line:

You can’t handle the truth! — by pulling in the context from a YouTube video.

This contextual citation doesn’t provide factual context, but rather helps the reader recall a favorable memory.

JFK: Inaugural Address

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In his inaugural address John F. Kennendy said ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country..

What else did Kennedy’s famous inaugural address say?

They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats

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After the Trump-Harris debate, the internet responded with songs and remixes of the Trump line

  • CiteIt offers the reader the comfort of maintaining their focus within the article, while allowing them to sample media they are curious about.

VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS:  ..  And I’ll tell you something, he’s going to talk about immigration a lot tonight even when it’s not the subject that is being raised. And I’m going to actually do something really unusual and I’m going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump’s rallies because it’s a really interesting thing to watch. You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about windmills cause cancer. And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom. And I will tell you the one thing you will not hear him talk about is you. You will not hear him talk about your needs, your dreams, and your, your desires. And I’ll tell you, I believe you deserve a president who actually puts you first. And I pledge to you that I will.

DAVID MUIR: Let me just ask, though, why did you try to kill that bill and successfully so? That would have put thousands of additional agents and officers on the border.

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: First let me respond as to the rallies. She said people start leaving. People don’t go to her rallies. There’s no reason to go. And the people that do go, she’s busing them in and paying them to be there. And then showing them in a different light. So, she can’t talk about that. People don’t leave my rallies. We have the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics. That’s because people want to take their country back. Our country is being lost. We’re a failing nation. And it happened three and a half years ago. And what, what’s going on here, you’re going to end up in World War 3, just to go into another subject. What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country. And look at what’s happening to the towns all over the United States. And a lot of towns don’t want to talk — not going to be Aurora or Springfield. A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it. In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a shame. As far as rallies are concerned, as far — the reason they go is they like what I say. They want to bring our country back. They want to make America great again. It’s a very simple phrase. Make America great again. She’s destroying this country. And if she becomes president, this country doesn’t have a chance of success. Not only success. We’ll end up being Venezuela on steroids.

Source: ABC News Transcript

Matt Taibbi: How do you regain Trust?

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In an interview on Rising, Matt Taibbi said how does science recover from this how do you regain trust and it’s similar to what happens in journalism after an episode like for instance the WMD affair or even Russia gate I would argue uh you know once the public is betrayed and they see that they’ve been betrayed it’s very hard to win that trust back and in science it’s it’s the same thing