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This report started well before the real meat of the recent election and I think it really shows some lack of appreciation of what's become pretty clear in the
by dinkumthinkum 10y ago
This report started well before the real meat of the recent election and I think it really shows some lack of appreciation of what's become pretty clear in the last few months, is a rather spectacular failure of "the Web" and the ridiculously over-hyped "digital journalism" as means of providing people realistic information about people, events, policies and other things that fall under the umbrella of "news."
As much as many of us have maligned newspapers as "legacy," "dead tree," or "rags," or as people that just don't "get" technology, all we have built, from news perspective, is a world wide network spreading silos of disinformation at the rate of terabytes of nonsense per day.
I think if anything, for me, we have seen that the legacy dead tree rags are far more valuable to an individual, a nation, and really the world, than blog engines and social networks. Newspapers, as with anything, have their faults but are much more preferable to "choose your own propaganda" aggregators or Alex Jones meme factories.
So, please, don't give the "visual storytellers" a "primary role." Let's get to real investigative journalism and journalism itself. It's not the medium; it's the content.