Blagging bluffing bloggers...
According to a report published jointly by the BBC, Reuters and the Media Center, you don't believe a word that I say.
Well actually that isn't quite true and that's the point. The report actually says that on the whole we are pretty sceptical about blogs and bloggers in general and take everything we read with a liberal dash of salt.
Of all the media channels, blogs came out as the least trusted news sources across the 10 countries surveyed for the report.
And Brazilians would appear to be the most distrusting of all with 45% of those canvassed saying they didn't trust blogs against the 20% who do. Even in the US where blogging is something of a religion, 38% of people distrust blogs against the 25% who do trust them.
Perhaps even more surprisingly, only 3% of the 10,000 people surveyed, said they turned to blogs for news information.
The report does make happier reading for Indonesian and South Korean bloggers. Not only do 36% of Indonesians trust blogs, against the 16% who do not, but in South Korean a whopping 17% of people regard blogs as their most important news source, even if 25% of them don't trust them.
It appears our most trusted source of news are country-specific television networks such as the BBC, which I suppose is only fair as it is their report.
Well. The fact is that the report is about the trust in news sources, and I believe that it has a lot of truth in that. Either people dont know much about blogs, so they rate it as a questionable source, or they feel that because the blog is such a personal space, it isnt a good source for news. But the blog is a great tool for communicating personal points of view, and get a feedback on that, and I think the distrust will decrease when the blogs credibility increases in a couple of years. But thats just my opinion...
Written by Thoughts from Norway on May 12, 2006 11:21 AM
ionolsen21 I am really impressed!
Written by topicstarter on October 19, 2006 01:34 AM