As the blizzard of paid-for news, cooked-up results, corruption scandals, cross-media ownership, conflict of interest, etc blows across the Indian media landscape, the 2010 Edelman trust barometer shows a sharp drop in trust in the news media in India over the past two years.
# Trust in business magazines: down to 47% from 72%
# Trust in TV news: down to 36% from 61%
# Trust in newspapers: down to 40% from 61%
The survey was produced by the research firm StrategyOne and consisted of 25-minute telephone interviews from September 29 to December 6, 2009. The survey sampled 4,875 respondents in 22 countries in two age groups (25-34 and 35-64).
The Edelman survey results are exactly opposite to the findings of the national election survey 2009 by the Lokniti team of the centre for study of developing societies which found that 45% greatly trusted what they read in newspapers, and a similar number somewhat trusted newspaper reports.
Visit the website: 2010 Edelman trust barometer
Also read: Editors’ Guild on paid news, private treaties
Pyramid Saimira, Tatva & Times Private Treaties
Times Private Treaties gets a very public airing
SUCHETA DALAL: Forget the news, you can’t believe the ads either
Does he who pays the piper call the tune?
SALIL TRIPATHI: The first casualty of a cosy deal is credibility
Selling the soul? Or sustaining the business?
PAUL BECKETT: Indian media holding Indian democracy ransom
Does he who pays the piper call the tune?
PRATAP BHANU MEHTA: ‘Indian media in deeply murky ethical territory’
The scoreline: Different strokes for different folks
A package deal that’s well worth a second look
ADITYA NIGAM: ‘Editors, senior journalists must declare assets’
The brave last words of Prabhash Joshi
‘Only the weather section isn’t sold these days’
It takes 3 Idiots to call the bluff of Pauper Tigers
protestations of innocence by vir and barkha are bizarre. both of them have been caught with their paws in the cookie jar , stealing the cookie and both are essentially saying that they were tasting the cookies so that others could be served (i.e we could give news to the readers/viewers and radia was our source)
they have turned out to be low rate fixers and naturally the journalist community should be ashamed of them