Journalism is leaving the public in the dark

A new report says that mainstream media is leaving the public in the dark by failing to explain basic information to them about the news.(via Journalism.co.uk).

The report by the Reuters institute was carried out during March 2008 when the big story in the news was the tussle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Yet,despite the coverage it appeared that none of the studies focus groups had any real understanding of the issues at large.

Furthermore the public expressed a general distrust.One of the subjects was the coverage of binge drinking.

The report also suggested that people felt that their values were not shared by the producers of news and that coverage rarely reflected their lives