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The news media are in crisis. Rocked by scandals, attacked from both the left and the right, challenged by upstart bloggers and accused of complicity with a war built largely on lies and shoddy information gathering, the credibility of journalism as a whole lies in tatters. In a recent US poll, 65 percent of the respondents did not trust news outlets to quickly report on or correct their own errors, while 79 percent thought the media would hesitate to run unflattering stories about advertisers. The silver lining? During such a time of anxiety, upheaval and war, a level of skepticism this high can serve to fuel the decommercialization our infosystems, to break up media monopolies and to force us all to scrutinize the true state of the mental commons.

Source: Annenberg Public Policy Center Poll, May 2005

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