News You Can Trust
Decrying the rise of “opinion news” and the creeping consolidation of news corporations, “citizen journalists” are asking the question: “What news sources can I trust?”
A group based out of Mill Valley is setting out to answer that with a new site that launched this week, NewsTrust.net. The group, which counts folks from Poynter, Harvard, Google, Stanford and others as advisors, reads and rates news stories that appear in everything from major papers to news blogs.
So far, the group rates the LAT as its top-rated newspaper (go home team!).
Fabrice Florin, exec director of NewsTrust, tells FBLA:
“I have not found anybody who does this. Nobody to my knowledge is keeping track of reputation. No one has applied the science that’s available to rating the quality of news sources. We’re a next-generation social news site. If you go to digg, their most popular pieces are all flagged by readers, saying, ‘This might not be accurate.’ I think that our approach is correct, and we’ve had the benefit of having a lot of good thinkers.”
