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NewsTrust: Who can you trust
NewsTrust is a social news rating site that takes a different approach. Rather than finding the most popular stories of the day, NewsTrust is a non-profit site aimed at finding the best examples of journalism each day.
When you submit a story or vote on a story submitted by other users, you'll be asked to fill out a little questionnaire. Click on any of the headings (like Trust, Fairness, or Context) for descriptions of the journalistic values behind each. Like any good web 2.0 site, NewsTrust also lets you add tags to stories and leave comments.
It's not clear whether the result is more useful than sites like Digg or Netscape if you're looking at finding the most interesting stories of the day. But if you're looking for the most thoroughly researched and reported stories, you might want to check NewsTrust out.
[via Poynter]
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Subscribe to commentsJunyoJul 18th 2007 11:16AM
As long as any idiot with an IP address can hit the site and vote, odds are the voting will simply reflect the bias of the voter rather than objective fact. There are lots of people that undoubtedly think that "unnamed sources", Indymedia, and moveon.org (or "unnamed sources", Fox News, and Rush) make an article "well sourced". So what does a vote prove?
People tend to forget that voting/democracy produces a popular result, not always a correct one.