Jeff Jarvis is Bored

We Media announces a survey on trust in various media in 10 countries. But the problem is, as David Schlesinger of Reuters said after it was presented, it is a mistake to concentrate on media. It’s absurd to say that you trust or don’t trust an entire medium: Do you trust books? Do you trust British people? These are absurdly broad questions. We all make individual decisions about whom we trust: this network and not that one, this reporter and not that one, this blogger and not that one. That is the real lesson of trust: It is a decision we all make on our own.

So this sets a tone of dealing with all the old saws: media v. media.

Now Danny Schechter’s knee is jerking: Media consolidation blah blah… Iraq blah blah….

Next Karen Stephenson of Media Center brings out the digital divide spiel. Same old stuff.

I thought this conference was called “we media.” We’re all media. Let’s talk, instead, about the possibilities, what to do now. Let’s invent and grow.