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fast moving news source. There is a hard trade-off in news between speed and accuracy. Twitter helped moved news away from accuracy. This is a negative develo
by mafribe 11y ago
fast moving news source.
There is a hard trade-off in news between speed and accuracy.
Twitter helped moved news away from accuracy. This is a negative development as truth is more important than speed in most cases for most people most of the time. For all its flaws, the old media had professional journalist that at least occasionally engaged in fact-checking, however perfunctory. This has completely gone out of the window, for many reasons, the most important of which is probably the collapse of ad-revenue and print sales, which isn't Twitter's fault. But Twitter has made things worse.
Twitter is a peer-to-peer tabloid.
- Karunamon 11y agoRant mode on: If the last few years of really paying attention has taught me one thing, it's that honest-to-god journalism, as in checking facts, vetting sources, and reporting stories as objectively as possible is dead. Completely and totally dead. Most people taking up that title flatly do not deserve it. Finding out what actual people are doing and what's happening in situations like Ferguson and the Arab Spring is a lot more important than some self-important agenda pusher's view on it. Journalism has failed the people it's supposed to serve, so now it's on the people to sort the information and come to their own conclusions. It's not like the vox populi could do much worse than the mainstream media...