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By: Trust 2.0 ? reports of MJ?s death are not greatly exaggerated « Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009

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Meanwhile, on the Internet… // VOID-STAR.NET β — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:17:11 +0000

[...] Trust 2.0 – reports of MJ’s death are not greatly exaggerated It was fascinating to watch the Michael Jackson rumours hit Twitter late last night (BST) and the mixed reaction to the initial TMZ.com report. journalism people:michaeljackson www:twitter [...]

By: Pm

Pm — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:26:34 +0000

Sun and Metro had Jacko front pages when I got to London. Turns out we just got an earlier edition in Brighton.

By: Judith Townend

Judith Townend — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:17:55 +0000

The general gist was supposed to be – at what point did the main news organisations decide to trust the TMZ scoop and how did they report it? I perhaps wasn’t very overt, but for me that raised questions about what makes an online source trustworthy. For example, if NYTimes had run that headline people would have had far fewer reservations about retweeting it. But I’m not saying everyone has to be interested in those issues.

In regards to the scoop: Guardian have just published an article ‘Michael Jackson: how celebrity gossip site TMZ got scoop of the decade’: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/26/michael-jackson-tmz-scoop. I’m not sure if I’d go that far, but it was a heck of a scoop in my view and TMZ got fantastic name-checks for it all over the shop. Also this link is interesting (in my view!) from the Chicago Tribune on how “It was old media stalwarts that did the heavy lifting”: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-fri-jackson-mediajun26,0,5302945.story

By: Ian Betteridge

Ian Betteridge — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:00:26 +0000

You’d have to ask them why they don’t trust it – as I say, I don’t read it, so I have no idea about its veracity.

Sorry if this sounds dumb, but what questions are you actually raising?

By: Judith Townend

Judith Townend — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:10:38 +0000

@IanBetteridge – so as a Time-Warner owned ‘professional media site’ why aren’t they considered a ‘particularly trustworthy source’ by the people you follow? Why didn’t people trust their scoop? I wasn’t trying to make a definitive point as such: more raise questions about the shifting news culture when it comes to source verification etc.

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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:15:29 +0000

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By: Ian Betteridge

Ian Betteridge — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:22:43 +0000

I’m not sure what the point you’re making is, to be honest. A professional media site that’s ultimately-owned by Time Warner got a scoop?

And I’m not sure about the “TMZ rarely gets it wrong” from Ashley, either. I don’t read it, but everyone I know who reads it regularly was urging caution. Certainly, no one on FriendFeed or Twitter that I could see was saying they were a particularly trustworthy source.

What’s more interesting is how the Jeff Goldblum rumours didn’t get much traction – working out why that didn’t happen will tell you a lot more about the nature of trust.

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silner's status on Friday, 26-Jun-09 10:54:08 UTC - Identi.ca — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:54:15 +0000

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