I have said on many occasions that the time of trusting your local paper or a single "news god" to tell you the news is gone... With the internet and the infinite information available the biggest problem is discerning fact from fiction -- the internet has and will change campaigns and news going further. I want hold my breath for any immediate changes at the NY Times though -- this is just damage control, in my opinion.
As examples, the report cited limiting anonymous sources, reducing factual errors and making a clearer distinction between news and opinion. It also said The Times should make the paper's operations and decisions more transparent to readers through methods like making transcripts of interviews available on its Web site.
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The report comes as the public's confidence in the media continues to wane. A recent study from the Pew Research Center found that 45 percent of Americans believe little or nothing of what they read in their daily newspapers...
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One area of particular concern to Mr. Keller at the outset was the relentless public criticism of the paper, amplified by both the left and right on the Internet...
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