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It's not the social media, it's mainstream mass media who decide to report on "hashtags", memes and viral videos and bring them to the wider public. Lazy journa
by lazyjones 6y ago
It's not the social media, it's mainstream mass media who decide to report on "hashtags", memes and viral videos and bring them to the wider public. Lazy journalists who don't investigate facts anymore and only care about trends and outrages and whose "ultimate editor" is now Twitter, as Bari Weiss alleged.
- originalvichy 6y agoThis is closer to the truth. The internet’s main currency is attention. It is a sea of information and the only places that get noticed are the ones given attention to. Mainstream media is in a feedback loop with the internet.
- throw_m239339 6y agoExactly. Like Bari Weiss said, "Twitter has become the editor". US journalists now write articles to satisfy their twitter following.
- save_ferris 6y agoThere's more money and opportunity for journalists to use tools like Twitter because that's where the public's attention is. With media outlets incentivizing things like CTR, journalists are going to use whatever gets more eyeballs. And since people aren't directly paying for their news anymore, reporting using tools like Twitter is what makes them the most money. If you're going to criticize "lazy journalists", you also have to acknowledge the system that makes it impossible to generate serious revenue without sites like Twitter and FB, because that's effectively what those companies have done.