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um, are you aware that Daily Show is satire and not really 'newspeople'. Just saying. "See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter." <sigh>

by dotBen 17y ago

henrikschroder 17y ago
Yes, but the Daily Show also showed clips from actual news programs, and they are certainly clueless.
- henrikschroder 17y ago
  I thought some more about this, and I think the biggest problem is that they have no sense of proportions, they are completely unable to figure out how popular something on the internet is, they don't know the difference between stuff noone cares about, and stuff that is actually widespread. Everything gets painted with the same "Newest craze on the internet" brush.
- qjz 17y ago
  No, they're not. They have staff reading reddit, Hacker News, Slashdot, etc. in order to find interesting news leads to sensationalize. It's THEIR JOB.
  - mcantor 17y ago
    [citation needed]
    - knome 17y ago
      http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.world.watching/index.html?eref=rss_us http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.world.watching...
  - cookiecaper 17y ago
    Right, but you can't accurately gauge things just by its appearance on reddit et al. Reddit caters to a specific niche and only a very small percentage of internet users use reddit (or slashdot, or HN, or...). Most reddit users know what ChatRoulette is because there have been some funny submissions about it, but that doesn't most other people know about ChatRoulette. However these people are finding these things, they are clearly not performing due diligence; ChatRoulette is not a "craze". Only a small segment even knew it existed until CNN and everyone else started running stories about it. For example, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chatroulette.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chatroulette.com shows an almost 600% 1-month increase in reach for chatroulette. Stories about ChatRoulette started showing up on CNN.com in February. Also, it's traffic is up 83,300% over the last three months. Alexa only grabs data from a small fraction of Internet Explorer users. Heh.
cookiecaper 17y ago
I wasn't referring to the Daily Show, I was referring to the "real news" programs it was mocking.

um, are you aware that Daily Show is satire and not really 'newspeople'. Just saying. "See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter." <sigh>

by dotBen 17y ago

um, are you aware that Daily Show is satire and not really 'newspeople'. Just saying. "See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter." <sigh>

henrikschroder 17y ago

Yes, but the Daily Show also showed clips from actual news programs, and they are certainly clueless.

henrikschroder 17y ago
I thought some more about this, and I think the biggest problem is that they have no sense of proportions, they are completely unable to figure out how popular something on the internet is, they don't know the difference between stuff noone cares about, and stuff that is actually widespread. Everything gets painted with the same "Newest craze on the internet" brush.
qjz 17y ago
No, they're not. They have staff reading reddit, Hacker News, Slashdot, etc. in order to find interesting news leads to sensationalize. It's THEIR JOB.
- mcantor 17y ago
  [citation needed]
  - knome 17y ago
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.world.watching/index.html?eref=rss_us http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.world.watching...
- cookiecaper 17y ago
  Right, but you can't accurately gauge things just by its appearance on reddit et al. Reddit caters to a specific niche and only a very small percentage of internet users use reddit (or slashdot, or HN, or...). Most reddit users know what ChatRoulette is because there have been some funny submissions about it, but that doesn't most other people know about ChatRoulette. However these people are finding these things, they are clearly not performing due diligence; ChatRoulette is not a "craze". Only a small segment even knew it existed until CNN and everyone else started running stories about it. For example, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chatroulette.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chatroulette.com shows an almost 600% 1-month increase in reach for chatroulette. Stories about ChatRoulette started showing up on CNN.com in February. Also, it's traffic is up 83,300% over the last three months. Alexa only grabs data from a small fraction of Internet Explorer users. Heh.

cookiecaper 17y ago

I wasn't referring to the Daily Show, I was referring to the "real news" programs it was mocking.