The real trick is deciding which information to believe. Network news programs are looking more like the tabloid shows, and vice versa.
Desktop publishing allows almost anyone to produce a seemingly respectable publication.
And on the Net, literally thousands of web pages contain various versions of the news, all offering the illusion of credibility. The local newspaper, perhaps, or a researcher at a local university. Witness the story that appeared on the front page of last Tuesday's Tucson Citizen, documenting a University of Arizona researcher's efforts to measure the amount of pornography on the Net. Reading directly from the UA's press release, Denogean reported that only 30,000 people were logging on daily to the web's most popular non-pornographic sites in May 1996. Meanwhile, she wrote, the top porn site was visited daily by nearly 100,000 people.