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Where, once again, a news org explains how editorial and news departments don't work together.

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Truer words have never been written.

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CNN's "Facts First" campaign video.

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Required reading for News Literacy 101

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Today in “news that’s not really news” ...

As Americans prepare to celebrate the country’s 241st birthday, they believe the overall tone and level of civility between Democrats and Republicans in the nation’s capital has gotten worse since the election of President Trump last year, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. The same survey also shows distrust of many of the nation’s fundamental democratic institutions amongst the public.

Seven in 10 Americans say the level of civility in Washington has gotten worse since President Trump was elected, while just 6 percent say the overall tone has improved. Twenty percent say it’s stayed the same. For comparison, 35 percent in 2009 said civility in the country had declined in the U.S. following President Obama’s election, per a Gallup survey. Eight years ago, 21 percent of Americans in that poll thought civility and the tone of discourse in the country had improved.

There’s also little difference in Americans’ views on civility and the level of discourse across partisan lines. Just over eight in 10 Democrats say it’s gotten worse since Trump was elected, while 70 percent of independents say the same thing. Sixty-five percent of Republicans say civility between the GOP and Democrats has declined since November, with just 12 percent saying it has improved.

“Searching for consensus in Washington?” asks Lee Miringoff, director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “There’s strong consensus across the board that civility in Washington is on the outs.”

And few people have a high level of trust in many of the institutions that are the backbone of American democracy. Only intelligence and law enforcement agencies like the CIA and the FBI engender much goodwill, with 60 percent saying they have some degree of trust in them.

Americans Say Civility Has Worsened Under Trump; Trust In Institutions Down

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Denver Post Digital Director Becky Risch is quoted in this story and talk about how revolutionary it is to have a service that helps people be rational. What a concept, huh?

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Will it help news organizations? Jury is still out. Judging from the comments, I am skeptical.

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As Americans prepare to celebrate the country’s 241st birthday, they believe the overall tone and level of civility between Democrats and Republicans in the nation’s capital has gotten worse since the election of President Trump last year, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. The same survey also shows distrust of many of the nation’s fundamental democratic institutions amongst the public.

Seven in 10 Americans say the level of civility in Washington has gotten worse since President Trump was elected, while just 6 percent say the overall tone has improved. Twenty percent say it’s stayed the same. For comparison, 35 percent in 2009 said civility in the country had declined in the U.S. following President Obama’s election, per a Gallup survey. Eight years ago, 21 percent of Americans in that poll thought civility and the tone of discourse in the country had improved.

There’s also little difference in Americans’ views on civility and the level of discourse across partisan lines. Just over eight in 10 Democrats say it’s gotten worse since Trump was elected, while 70 percent of independents say the same thing. Sixty-five percent of Republicans say civility between the GOP and Democrats has declined since November, with just 12 percent saying it has improved.

“Searching for consensus in Washington?” asks Lee Miringoff, director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “There’s strong consensus across the board that civility in Washington is on the outs.”

And few people have a high level of trust in many of the institutions that are the backbone of American democracy. Only intelligence and law enforcement agencies like the CIA and the FBI engender much goodwill, with 60 percent saying they have some degree of trust in them.

Americans Say Civility Has Worsened Under Trump; Trust In Institutions Down

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"I think it's easy to rip people when you've never met them, but our folks have met us, dealt with us, and understand what we're doing. And, for the most part, they appreciate our work. One challenge is to overcome the image of a news organization as a monolithic, impenetrable, uncontrollable force and demonstrate that we're neighbors, trying our hardest to deliver information local people need to have."

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A reporter explains why he confronted Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

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If you're going to make an omelet, the saying goes, you're going to have to break some eggs. Maybe the same is true for journalism.

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This is how great journalists get their start.

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No simpler way to say it.

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As a trusted colleague has said, “We’re not at war, we’re at work.” 

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It is cheap, it is cowardly, and it is bad citizenship to simply shriek ‘fake news!’ every time reality forces a hard choice upon us.

Kevin D. Williamson, correspondent for the National Review Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447693/fake-news-media-voters-shared-reality-must-be-acknowledged

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When Jeff Jarvis (who directs CUNY’s Tow-Knight Center and has been focused on the trust issue) how he expects to use the money, he ticked off more than a half dozen ideas — “new metrics of impact,” news literacy, better “public listening,” and the more abstract “How do we rethink the informed conversation?”

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An iconic duo speaks at the WHCD.