Column: Surprise, surprise study shows we all just want the facts Shannon Casas
A media insights study has discovered that Americans want facts.
Yes, it sounds on the surface like one of those no-duh studies that wasted money to discover what we all know already.
There’s actually quite a bit more to the 78-page study, “A New Way of Looking at Trust in Media: Do Americans Share Journalism’s Core Values?,” which was released this week by the Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
But for the purposes of this column, we’re going to stick to the facts.
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Sex, lies and the Alabama secretary of state: The fall of John Merrill
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For more than two years, John Merrill carried on an affair, secure in the assumption that his secret life was safe so long as the woman he slept with didn’t go public about it.
However, on April 6 a self-described “New Right” political blog published recordings of Cesaire McPherson speaking in explicit terms about her relationship with Merrill. It might have been as much a surprise to McPherson as it was to the secretary of state.
“I never would have said all those things if I knew I was being recorded,” said McPherson. “I wouldn’t have been talking just like some kind of barroom sailor talk.”
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Many Americans don’t support journalistic values, study says
Most if not all journalists likely share a commitment to a set of journalistic values, including a belief that those in power should be subject to oversight, that transparency is the right approach to important information, that facts are required to get to the truth, that the less powerful deserve a voice, and that revealing the flaws in society helps us to deal with them. But do consumers share a commitment to these values? A study published on Wednesday by the Media Insight Project, a joint venture of the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, suggests that many do not, and that this could help explain why there has been a crisis in trust when it comes to mainstream journalism. The authors say their study shows that uneasiness with these core values of journalism crosses ideological boundaries, and the bottom line is that “when journalists say they are just doi