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Amid complaints about Blair Witch-style camerawork and flat, reality-show type dialogue, their principal criticism is of the highly ambiguous blend of reality and fiction, which leaves them wondering whether they should trust anything the film says. Only the credits (which list the names of actors who played each role) indicate that it is a work of fiction...
...transfixed by long acronyms. Fox News is winning the cable battle, and during the Republican National Convention it even beat the networks. At the same time, media intellectuals, pundits and ordinary Americans alike agree that Fox exhibits a fairly extreme bias towards the right. Eighty-nine percent of Americans trust museums for unbiased information. Thirty-six percent trust television news. These numbers don’t really add up. Americans in the twenty-first century seem to have developed a contradictory stance towards the media. On one hand, they demand their news to be exciting. On the other, they clearly...
...lack of trust Americans have in their media is reflected by the number of media watchdog groups, each with its own left- or right-leaning agenda, that have sprung up in the last few years. There’s the Media Research Center, whose mission is to “prove that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values.” And then there’s Media Matters for America, whose opposing raison d’etre is “to comprehensively monitor, analyze, and correct conservative misinformation in the U.S. media...
...however, has only as much staying power as we media consumers give it. Recently, we’ve been a bit too generous. When media outlets differentiate themselves by bending the truth and overstating the facts, it’s tough to know what’s left to trust. It’s also tough to blame them for their excesses. The consumer confidence problem plaguing American media—the problem that has convinced 64 percent of America that the media are untrustworthy (up from 46 percent in mid-1989)—is not the media?...
...many cases, Harvard departments look to people they know and trust. Johnson, for example, is no stranger—he graduated from the college and, in the early ’90s, taught here as a graduate student and post doctoral fellow...