The Media Downing of Pierre Salinger

Journalistic Mistrust of the Internet as a News Source

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ID7495111
AuthorsThomas E Ruggiero (corresponding author), Samuel P Winch (corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume10
Issue2
Pages00-00
Publication date2006-06-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1083-6101 • E-ISSN: 1083-6101
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00245.x
OpenAlexW2067061732
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited18

Through analysis of historical listserv dialogue and traditional media dissection of a watershed debate—that a missile caused the TWA 800 crash on July 17, 1996—this study seeks to shed light on an early example of journalistic wariness and mistrust of the Internet as a news source. Specifically, we analyze the rhetoric of the late Pierre Salinger's connections to the historic incident, and the credibility of the Internet as a news source, as debated by professional journalists on the Internet and in mainstream media forums. A rhetorical analysis of how this debate was framed suggests that negative journalistic perceptions of the Internet's news credibility were already solidifying by the mid-1990s, and have continued to do so since that time

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