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MediaShift offers some tips on adding to credibility and developing trust in the face on an onslaught of amateur reporters and crowdsourcing. “If you were a professional journalist and I asked you, “What does mainstream media provide that the crowd can’t?” I have some guesses about what I might hear in your answer: It’s more…

MediaShift offers some tips on adding to credibility and developing trust in the face on an onslaught of amateur reporters and crowdsourcing.

“If you were a professional journalist and I asked you, “What does
mainstream media provide that the crowd can’t?” I have some guesses
about what I might hear in your answer: It’s more credible, more
comprehensive, fact-checked, less biased, professionally composed, more
knowledgeable, presented in the larger context, and more reliable, to
name a few.”

MediaShift offers some tips on adding to credibility and developing trust in the face on an onslaught of amateur reporters and crowdsourcing.

“If you were a professional journalist and I asked you, “What does
mainstream media provide that the crowd can’t?” I have some guesses
about what I might hear in your answer: It’s more credible, more
comprehensive, fact-checked, less biased, professionally composed, more
knowledgeable, presented in the larger context, and more reliable, to
name a few.”

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