“The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has been tracking views of press performance since 1985, and the overall ratings remain quite negative. (2011) Fully 66% say news stories often are inaccurate, 77% think that news organizations tend to favor one side, and 80% say news organizations are often influenced by powerful people and organizations.”

Full study: http://www.people-press.org/2011/09/22/press-widely-criticized-but-trusted-more-than-other-institutions/

1. Don’t be too quick to assume that waterboarding equals torture. No sane person would argue that it isn’t a harsh form of interrogation, but as former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy notes in his 2007 National Review Online column, “Waterboarding and Torture,” there’s a little-known legal definition for the word “torture.” As McCarthy wrote: ”(T)he designation torture is reserved for practices causing ‘intense, lasting and heinous agony’ (quoting a 2002 D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals case).” 

We could spend the rest of the day debating whether waterboarding meets that particular legal definition, but the bottom line is that a journalist should not cavalierly equate “torture” with “anything that I would personally consider uncomfortable.” 

2. My biggest criticism of today’s mainstream journalists is their failure to recognize that objectivity requires more than just checking, say, whether Obama ever used the word “apology” in his overseas speeches. The dinosaur in the living room is that their decision to fact-check Mitt Romney is a subjective action in itself, as was their decision to send dozens of reporters to Alaska to probe the background of Sarah Palin. 

I’m not arguing that Romney’s statements shouldn’t be fact-checked or that Palin’s background shouldn’t be probed. I’m pointing out that if the media apply this level of scrutiny only to Republican candidates (Does anyone remember dozens of reporters being sent to Chicago to probe candidate Obama’s background?) or fail to revisit the false promises of the current administration (Didn’t the president once say he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his four-year term?), then readers still aren’t getting the whole truth. For that matter, objectivity also depends on a news organization’s choice of what to cover and where (and how) to play it.  

In other words, fact-checking is the easy part. The media’s reputation, such as it is, also depends on their ability (and willingness) to cover both sides of the spectrum with equal enthusiasm, regardless of their personal views. As the classic question goes: “Who watches the watchers?”  

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Envisioning this use, radio captioning should be Unicode-based so languages not natively written in roman script can also be captioned without transliteration.  This has been a chronic problem in TV captioning.

The problem with this was that we soon found out that, in the words of the advertisers at OMMA and Digital Hollywood, there was not much enthusiasm for monetizing “Loser-Generated Content.” There was a perceived need that to go beyond the stereotypical “cat dancing on a keyboard” video, we need to teach our audience to produce better stories/pictures/videos – so in 2009, a lot of the KNC entries tended to be “training” regimes to turn ordinary folks into fast, accurate newshounds. Jury’s still out on whether that is working – although the amateur cellphone video coming out of Syria that is featured on newscasts every night around the world would argue that reality has outstripped us on this point.

Next, in 2010, the flavor of the year was apps, tablets and apps on tablets. Only said apps are hard to make. So the KNC saw an upswing in proposals to create software to make it easier for news organizations (or indie journalists) to build, provision & launch their own apps.

I think you’ve rightly identified that the trends in the next year or so are going to be around Big Data. The startups in Silicon Valley, the SNS, DCIA and InfoWorld all seem to agree with you.

I’ve seen so many of my peers leave the industry, many times reluctantly, begging for enough of a raise to at least pretend to be competitive only to be scoffed at.

If the news industry is serious, they’ll make an effort to attract and retain talented developers, but as it stand now, the industry seems content to let them walk out the door and wonder why.

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Berkeleyside partners with Bay Citizen, the San Francisco Chronicle and KQED, since it has rapidly become the major source for Berkeley news. Unlike Patch, all of our revenue comes from local advertisers, and we’re finding a healthy stream of them interested in marketing online through a trusted, local news site. 

We don’t have the millions of dollars raised by Bay Citizen, but our monthly uniques and pageviews are not that far off what I understand Bay Citizen has — even though we cover one-thirtieth of the population. 

Local sites like Berkeleyside aren’t designed to attract venture investment or head to an IPO. Like local newspapers in the early 20th century, we’re focused on making it by serving the local community. 

Perhaps there will be a 21st century Newhouse or Scripps in a few decades who rolls up dozens or hundreds of independent local sites and creates a regional or national chain. But we’re already proving that sustainable local businesses can be built around news. 

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