New report: media credibility OK, but what are blogs?
The APME is an organization of newspaper managing editors. It is meeting in Louisville now, and our managing editor, Ann Morris, is there. Today, the group released a report on media credibility. Not a whole lot of new stuff there. Most who responded said they trust the media, but also think we need to get back to the basics of objectivity, checking out the story, and understanding the difference between skepticism and hostility.
But tomorrow's report might prove interesting to you. Here is the headline: "Despite the recent surge in interest regarding online Web logs, four of five readers surveyed say they don't read Web logs, or "blogs." Those respondents who do read blogs urge caution but suggest the new medium offers great potential as a watchdog of mainstream media."
We'll see tomorrow. Great potential as a watchdog of mainstream media? Well, yes. But how about great potential as a news medium? Examples abound, including our own Inside Scoop and an awful lot of your blogs.
I also think that one of five readers reading blogs is a pretty good percentage for such a new medium. (It was an e-mail survey so I suspect it may be slightly skewed to more regular online denizens.)
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The Sinclair Affair will be the biggest test of the Blogosphere to be a watchdog thus far. There's a threatened boycott of Sinclair's advertisers, thousands of e-mails have been sent, and several of the servers that host web-sites to Sinclair stations have been crashed due to the increase of angry voters
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