Dear Jesús,

On RG I have a question on how to explain the decadence of journalism and how to bring it out of its decadence. Because journalists have forgotten to answer the five traditional questions of every news story, Who?, When?, Where?, Why?, How?, and because the stories they choose are limited and slanted by their financiers and by the business community in general, the internet has become more accurate. Moreover, traditional journalistic media often derive their information from the net. Therefore, Spaniards trust the internet more, and so should non-Spaniards.

Dear Jesús,

On RG I have a question on how to explain the decadence of journalism and how to bring it out of its decadence. Because journalists have forgotten to answer the five traditional questions of every news story, Who?, When?, Where?, Why?, How?, and because the stories they choose are limited and slanted by their financiers and by the business community in general, the internet has become more accurate. Moreover, traditional journalistic media often derive their information from the net. Therefore, Spaniards trust the internet more, and so should non-Spaniards.

Yes, today Internet is being trusted more than the traditional journalists because of various reasons, which have been discussed in a thread earlier.

Dear Jesus

Printed newspapers in Brazil present the information with greater confidence level when compared to other media such as TV, internet, radio and magazines, pointing commissioned by the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency (Research in March 2014) . According to the survey, 53% of respondents who use printed newspaper reported always or often rely on the news published.

Confidence is low among respondents who use the internet: only 28% of users said they always or often rely on information published on websites. Trust in news reports on social networks is 24% and even lower among blogs: 22%

Yes Jesus. I would agree with the recent research published in Spain that the Internet is the media people trust more. From my point of view, I would prefer the internet as a media.

I place a greater trust on the source rather than the medium.. Just because something can reach millions in a moment it does not become more dependable.. yet have to accept I depend more and more on the internet for finding the relevant sources..

First of all, many thanks to everybody for your answers.

Dear Nelson Orringer, thanks for the information about the thread. I will take a look at it.

However, as Nelson Elias said, for example, Brazilian people don´t think the same...

Regarding C. Lewis answer, I absolutely agree that you can find a variety of sources, but the question is: do you think that they are reliable enough? As Mandana says, the sourse is often more importante than the medium.

I trust whatever includes reference to evidence (from research papers, from names witnesses etc) so it's not about the media but about the content.

To trust informations they must be plausible and reproducable. So I try to get the infos from different sources. The only sources I always avoid are the cheap and primitive tabloids and silly TVs.

For 4 consecutive years we have been assessing the confidence in media among the educated population through polls. Our sample size came to be 4850, and the results show that here in Lebanon the level of trusting media like in many other countries do not go beyond 27%, meaning that around 63% do not trust the classical news media. In fact, we did not emphasize the Internet by itself which as it looks may get more promising scores. I believe this is a domain where a study should be performed to verify and compare our Lebanese status with the other reported figures.

@Ale,

interesting data. I´m surprized about the high number of not followers in your country.

@ Ale, that´s quite interesting. I´m as surprized as @Hanno about it.

Nice! But are you aware of the social fact that in many places around the world with Lebanon being a prime example, media moblizes the masses eventhough it is not trusted? This is a dilemma that I have witnessed here!

Kindly refer to this article

Article: Confidence in News Media: Exploring Lebanon

Ale J. Hejase, Hussin J. Hejase

ABSTRACT: The USA in particular has been a leading country in what relates to news media and press accuracy and fairness studies. Institutions like Gallup and Pew continue to issue periodical reports through which they assess America’s public opinion in news media. Countries like Lebanon lack such assessments and reports. This study is an exploratory assessment of the news media in Lebanon by using a poll questionnaire that was administered on nine occasions in a time frame of four years. Its purpose is to shed light on the Lebanese news media and press accuracy and fairness. One important implication of the results is that it makes accessible to future researchers a clear and referenced road map to follow in future works. Apart from defining the well documented and supported methodology, the paper presents the descriptive outcome of 4850 questionnaires collected along the aforementioned time frame. Moreover, the paper presents reliability, validity and dependence analysis specific to the sample data at hand. The results do align with their reported counterparts mainly in the USA, where the percentage of negative news media assessment in Lebanon is estimated to be 64% which matches the 63% reported in the USA.

Global Media Journal-Arabian Edition. 01/2013; Volume 2(Issues 1-2):127-146.

To Joseph Goebbels, "Give me mass media and I will make a pig herd from every folk"

I prefer newspapers to rest of the media.

I being a bookworm used to read books, thematic journals, manuscripts. I couldn't live without texts. I dislike, when interpretation of the information is imposed with one or another ideological sauce. I have never seen TV- it's waste of time. Nowadays in the period of information war it's better to discuss the problems with like-minded persons. I think, only RG is able to motivate persons to learn, learn and learn ad infinitum. 

Yes! Irina... I highly support you. Indoctrination is the main outcome that results from "wasting time to watch TV".

I still believe in journalism