Has newspaper credibility mattered? A perspective on media credibility debate

Blake and Wyatt suggest that media professionals and scholars should not assume the media's credibility and support for free expression are interdependent. They also suggest the corollary that ebbing levels of media credibility are not necessarily to blame for declines in news media use and in...

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Published inNewspaper research journal Vol. 23; no. 1; p. 73
Main Authors Blake, Kenneth R, Wyatt, Robert O
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC 01.01.2002
Subjects
Credibility
Freedom of speech
News media
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Summary:Blake and Wyatt suggest that media professionals and scholars should not assume the media's credibility and support for free expression are interdependent. They also suggest the corollary that ebbing levels of media credibility are not necessarily to blame for declines in news media use and in support for free expression.
ISSN:0739-5329
2376-4791
DOI:10.1177/073953290202300107