Fascinating. Required (very easy) reading for anybody who works in news/media or cares about the future of journalism. If you just read the headline, you won't get the story. The most important thing is the actual survey question itself:
The basic survey question is, “I think you can trust most news most of the time.”
A strange, interesting question. I'd probably say "No" too. (Yet I'd definitely say yes to, "I think you can trust most people most of the time.")
“We leave it to the respondent to define what trust means for them,” Nielsen wrote, “and ask a general question about trust in news, without specifying means of delivery.
OK. That really matters. Most news exists in a soup of noise that can't be trusted. That's why my initial answer was "No."
Follow-ups show that users give a higher trust rating to news they themselves consume and a lower rating to news on social media.
Wait, what?! I can't make sense of that. The question seems to imply that news on social media isn't news that "you yourself consume"? In other words: "Do you believe news that you read/watch versus news that other people maybe read/watch?" If that's the question, I must ask: How is that even a question?! Lol. Some parts of this completely confound me.
Ultimately, I think the nut is really obvious: The growing dystopian nightmare is the overall non-consumption of news. Some people know that they're not getting anything but headlines and entertainment and they still don't care. Some people do the necessary work to actually read, and they live happier, healthier lives because of it. And some people really have no clue one way or the other. They're completely unaware that they live in complete darkness.
Fascinating. Required (very easy) reading for anybody who works in news/media or cares about the future of journalism. If you just read the headline, you won't get the story. The most important thing is the actual survey question itself:
A strange, interesting question. I'd probably say "No" too. (Yet I'd definitely say yes to, "I think you can trust most people most of the time.")
OK. That really matters. Most news exists in a soup of noise that can't be trusted. That's why my initial answer was "No."
Wait, what?! I can't make sense of that. The question seems to imply that news on social media isn't news that "you yourself consume"? In other words: "Do you believe news that you read/watch versus news that other people maybe read/watch?" If that's the question, I must ask: How is that even a question?! Lol. Some parts of this completely confound me.
Ultimately, I think the nut is really obvious: The growing dystopian nightmare is the overall non-consumption of news. Some people know that they're not getting anything but headlines and entertainment and they still don't care. Some people do the necessary work to actually read, and they live happier, healthier lives because of it. And some people really have no clue one way or the other. They're completely unaware that they live in complete darkness.