[MGP-Forum Announce] News Trust

[Lisa Williams]

That's a good point. 
What would be great is getting the CJR's great "Who Owns What" into 
syndicate-able form, so that it could be displayed dynamically on pages 
for a given news source.  Along with stock prices, political 
contributions by executives, (hey, Rupert Murdoch does it) and 
organizational involvement in anything from charities, foundations, 
j-schools, and lobbying organizations.



steve at coanews.org wrote:
> Hi everyone, I just wanted to bring attention to the recently publicly  
> launched (beta) NewsTrust - http://newstrust.net/
>
> They have relatively comprehensive and easy to use rating tools for  
> citizens to use when rating stories/sources.
>
> Here is a MediaChannel video on it:
> http://www.mediachannel.org/articles/2006/11/29/Can_You_Trust.html
>
>
> Here's what Rory Oconnor wrote about it:
> http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/
>
>
> My only reservation is that citizens cannot properly rate the level of  
> trust a source has purely on the articles produced. They need to also  
> know the structure of the news organizations, owner, financing,  
> underwriting, editorial policy, and stories they do NOT cover. But  
> that's probably a different project all together.
>
> I'm hoping that one day they have tools that enable other  
> organizations to use NewTrust rating tools on their sites. For example  
> it would be great to be able to integrate these tools on the COA News  
> (http://coanews.org) site, so that our audience could rate our stories.
>
>
> Glad to see another powerful participatory media site,
> Steve
>
>
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