{"id":3152,"date":"2009-09-14T13:05:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T17:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2009-09-14T13:05:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T17:05:03","slug":"media-credibility-dropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/09\/14\/media-credibility-dropping\/","title":{"rendered":"Media credibility dropping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Pew Research Center <a title=\"survey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5g8yHd2WPkK2MQuqOX93ExkU_86zwD9AMR3OO0\" target=\"_blank\">survey <\/a>of Americans&#8217; attitudes about media now show nearly two-thirds believe that news stories often are inaccurate &#8211; a big shift since 1985 when only 34 percent felt that way.\u00a0 Pulitzer-winning College of Communication Dean <a title=\"Tom Fiedler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/tom_fiedler.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Fiedler <\/a>thinks legitimate media are getting a bum rap.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Much of the negativity toward the news media about its alleged lack of trustworthiness derives, I believe, from the lack of credibility by those who masquerade as journalists but are merely entertainers and commentators.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Tom Fiedler, 617-353-3488, <a href=\"mailto:tfiedler@bu.edu\">tfiedler@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Pew Research Center survey of Americans&#8217; attitudes about media now show nearly two-thirds believe that news stories often are inaccurate &#8211; a big shift since 1985 when only 34 percent felt that way.\u00a0 Pulitzer-winning College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler thinks legitimate media are getting a bum rap. &#8220;Much of the negativity toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}