{"id":540,"date":"2006-05-08T14:44:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T09:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=540"},"modified":"2006-05-08T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T09:44:21","slug":"bloggers-not-trusted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2006\/05\/08\/bloggers-not-trusted\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers not Trusted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"articleBody\" \/><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\">Bloggers rank lowest on the scale of trusted news sources, according to a poll released this week during a media conference in <\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\">London<\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\">.? <\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\">The survey, conducted by the polling company GlobeScan for the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\">BBC-Reuters-Media<\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\">Center<\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\"> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We Media\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Forum and released Wednesday, ranked national TV as the most trusted news source overall, trusted by 82 percent of the 10,230 people surveyed in 10 countries.? <\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\">Internet bllgs, on the other hand, were trusted by just 25 percent of the respondents. The survey found that 23 percent of the respondents said they distrusted blogs, compared to 16 percent for national TV. One in two people were unable to say whether they trusted blogs at all.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\" \/><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redherring.com\/article.aspx?a=16743\">Red Herring<\/a> reports on a poll conducted during a recent Media conference in London.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\">I think that till there is either &#8216;self regulation&#8217; or some sort of credibility check &#8211; the status of blogs will remain more or less what has been said in the poll.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\">Free expression does not necessarily mean perceived credible expression!<\/span><span style=\"font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;\"><\/p>\n<p \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloggers rank lowest on the scale of trusted news sources, according to a poll released this week during a media conference in London.? 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