Word: trust
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...planned to release a lengthy report this week on the Clinton Administration's "ethical problems," including the White House's handling of the FBI files and the legal work by Hillary Rodham Clinton that has come under scrutiny by Whitewater investigators. "I'm talking here about issues of public trust. I'm not talking about charges of philandering and that stuff," Bennett said, conveniently mentioning them anyway...
...signed before. Nothing happened. I can't understand it. Is this because of differences in his Cabinet? I told him, "Please start implementing the agreements. Start with [Israeli army deployment from] Hebron. Ease the closure [of Israel to Palestinian workers]. This is the only way to make people trust the new Israeli government." Mind you, the Syrians are telling me, "How can you trust this man? Look at what he is doing with the Palestinians...
...magazine last June devoted a special issue to media conglomerates, including a chart detailing the tentacles of four dominant companies: General Electric (owner of NBC), Walt Disney Co. (ABC), Time Warner (CNN) and Westinghouse (CBS). Americans may be tuning out the news, the magazine speculated, "because they don't trust its homogenized premise of objectivity, especially when Disneyized, Murdochized, Oprahized and Hard Copyized." Though these corporate ownerships are becoming more apparent (Good Morning America travels to Disney World more often), the homogenizing factor may be the result of profit pressures and competition rather than some sprawling conglomerate conspiracy...
Faced with personalities they don't trust who interview people they don't recognize about stories they don't feel concern them, young viewers are clicking the nightly news goodbye. This election year provides a good indicator of the media generation gap. Only 15% of young adults (vs. 35% of Americans 45 to 59 years old) say they are following news about the presidential campaign "very closely," a poll by the Media Studies Center found. Moreover, their antipathy to news extends beyond politics, because most stories, written or broadcast, either shut out or distort young Americans' lives. Newspaper portrayals...
...digital age, the trend is not toward media concentration but toward a wondrous diversity of voices. Each month dozens of new publications and Websites and information services are born. Only those that each day earn the trust of their users and readers will survive. At TIME we're not always going to be perfect in our judgments and criticism. But we promise that the mistakes we make will be due to our editorial fallibility rather than to corporate kowtowing. We'll keep foremost in our minds that our credibility, openness and editorial honesty are all we have to offer...