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Mr. Kidder noted a survey by the Opinion Research Corporation last February, as Mr. Blagojevich was sinking into the impeachment mire in Springfield, asking youths ages 12 to 17 about ethics.
Eighty percent believed they were prepared to make ethical decisions when they joined the work force. Of that group, nearly half said that lying to parents or guardians was O.K., and 61 percent said they had done so in the last year. More than a third of respondents thought that “you have to break the rules at school to succeed.”
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Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust. 49% say they trust it to 37% who do not. A generation ago Walter Cronkite was the most trusted man in the country because of his neutrality. Now people trust Fox the most precisely because of its lack of neutrality.
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While they last, the sites seem to enjoy smashing some sacred journalism traditions, quaint rituals like editing, striving for objectivity, and verifying rumors before publication.
Cody Brown, a 21-year-old film major who founded NYU Local about two years ago, follows the new-media creed that "transparency is the new objectivity." His take on hearsay: It's "way more responsible to publish those rumors," as long as you label them as such. Then you can check reader comments to "see what kicks up."
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Precisely because the press is often critical of political leaders, it provides them legitimacy when it validates the grounds for their decisions. A press that is widely trusted by the public for its independence and integrity is also a resource for building consensus. Thus when the public sorts itself according to hostile, ideologically separate media—when the world of Walter Cronkite gives way to the world of Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann—political leadership loses a consensus-building partner.
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Where do they get this idea of group rules, the sense of “we who do it this way”? Dr. Tomasello believes children develop what he calls “shared intentionality,” a notion of what others expect to happen and hence a sense of a group “we.” It is from this shared intentionality that children derive their sense of norms and of expecting others to obey them.
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Here’s how anonyblogging works: let’s say johndoe.tumblr.com is your target. You create a free account [...], then “follow” John’s blog. Obsessively “reblog” every post John makes, adding snarky, mean, or outright profane commentary. Tumblr’s “dashboard” system means that people [who] follow John will likely see the nasty comments. It’s the equivalent of watching someone shout at your pal as he walks down the street. But what makes the attack so unpleasant is that there’s no way for John to shake a malicious anonyblogger.
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It is perhaps the last frontier in advertising — getting regular people to send a sentence or two of text, on behalf of paying advertisers, to their friends and admirers. The idea, according to the entrepreneurs who are developing such services for Twitter and other Web networks, is that people trust recommendations from those they know and respect, while they increasingly ignore nearly ever other kind of ad message in print, on television and online.
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a raft of new research in humans suggests that oxytocin underlies the twin emotional pillars of civilized life, our capacity to feel empathy and trust.
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Trust is the new black... The great opportunity for news orgs is to constructively demonstrate trustworthy reporting & to visibly do so. The new model for news curation & selection, I feel, will be a balance of prof. editing & collaborative news filtering. In one incarnation, news orgs will look at feeds from highly respected news fans & that will drive stories that are featured more prominently.
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Media critic Ken Auletta tracks the development of Google from a search engine created in a garage in 1998 to the provider of all things Internet in his new book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. He asks: "Do you trust Google? Do you want to store that information with a company? Will they guard your secrets, or will they share them with advertisers or with someone else?"
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Chicago News Cooperative - Now at Northwestern, Ethics 101, Taught by, Well, Go Figure - NYTimes.comMr. Kidder noted a survey by the Opinion Research Corporation last February, as Mr. Blagojevich was sinking into the impeachment mire in Springfield, asking youths ages 12 to 17 about ethics. Eighty percent believed they were prepared to make ethical decisions when they joined the work force. Of that group, nearly half said that lying to parents or guardians was O.K., and 61 percent said they had done so in the last year. More than a third of respondents thought that “you have to break the rules at school to succeed.”
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