http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2009/10/07/why-dont-kiwis-trust-the-media/ Our aim is to promote accuarate, bias-free reporting on science and technology by helping the media work more closely with the scientific community. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:19:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2009/10/07/why-dont-kiwis-trust-the-media/comment-page-1/#comment-18501 Blair Smith Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:18:54 +0000 http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/?p=4302#comment-18501 Looking forward to your survey results. It would also be great to have a full study, ongoing, into mainstream news accuracy. The above mentioned survey seems too subjective, the percentages have little meaning. The news media might be 95% accurate but people's perceptions are warped by their own mistaken beliefs etc., so a better methodology would be to get fact-checkers to scan samples of main stream media reporting and establish an accuracy baseline. This would then be rigorous and some uncertainty bounds could be established for the average accuracy of various media sources (per article or per paragraph say, and only factual accuracy, not stuff like typos or poor writing, though the latter would also be interesting to survey with more rigour). One could then continue the method to track changes in accuracy over time as well as compare with other countries and a sample from blogs and non-news sources of facts like Wikipedia. Looking forward to your survey results. It would also be great to have a full study, ongoing, into mainstream news accuracy. The above mentioned survey seems too subjective, the percentages have little meaning. The news media might be 95% accurate but people’s perceptions are warped by their own mistaken beliefs etc., so a better methodology would be to get fact-checkers to scan samples of main stream media reporting and establish an accuracy baseline. This would then be rigorous and some uncertainty bounds could be established for the average accuracy of various media sources (per article or per paragraph say, and only factual accuracy, not stuff like typos or poor writing, though the latter would also be interesting to survey with more rigour). One could then continue the method to track changes in accuracy over time as well as compare with other countries and a sample from blogs and non-news sources of facts like Wikipedia.

]]> http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2009/10/07/why-dont-kiwis-trust-the-media/comment-page-1/#comment-17732 TVNZ psychic move: A ‘new low’ for the industry | Griffin’s Gadgets Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:30:11 +0000 http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/?p=4302#comment-17732 [...] already seen this week proof in an UMR Research study that the pub­lic believes the media is inac­cu­rate biased and unwill­ing to own up to its [...] [...] already seen this week proof in an UMR Research study that the pub­lic believes the media is inac­cu­rate biased and unwill­ing to own up to its [...]

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