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Either way, journalism is (used to be?) a credibility business. Imagine trying to apply the same standard to social networks.
by zoul 7y ago
Either way, journalism is (used to be?) a credibility business. Imagine trying to apply the same standard to social networks.
- ithkuil 7y agoJournalism stops to be in the Credibility business the moment it enters the Identity business. Belonging to a group (on ideological or other grounds) becomes tied up with a shared world view and the papers and other media become the forum where those memes take shape and reinforce or weed out each other, often with less regard to objective truth than to usefulness for the social cohesion of the group.
- jonex 7y agoI follow people on twitter who have a history of being focused on correct representation of facts. I trust them much more than anyone should trust what is written in a typical news paper. The trick is that they keep to subject areas they know and they know how to read original sources properly. There's no problem in applying even higher standards to social networks than for news, the problem, if we want to call it that, is that most people don't really care.