• Gigaom, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 4:50 PM

Maybe not, according to a forum on Journalistic Ethics in a Digital Age. "Checking specific facts may have gotten easier, now that anyone can do it, but is reaching any kind of consensus about the capital T truth even possible any more?" writes Matthew Ingram. With social media, "there are literally thousands of different versions of the truth about any given news story." One forum participant even said "that the whole notion of 'objectivity' was something the media came up with in the 1950s and ’60s in order to appeal to a mass audience (and thereby appeal to advertisers), and that it serves no useful purpose any more," according to Ingram.

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