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Something that gets missed a lot, is how much the news media relies on Twitter now. The percentage of stories that get run on online news sites which are built
by TrevorJ 4y ago
Something that gets missed a lot, is how much the news media relies on Twitter now. The percentage of stories that get run on online news sites which are built entirely on a few Twitter hot takes is astonishing.
This is allowing journalists to write a lot more stories without leaving their desks, which means they can likely pump out a ton more articles each week than in the old days.
If Twitter changes such that it's no longer seen as appropriate or acceptable to pullquote tweets as the basis for an article, a lot of Blogs/News sites are in serious trouble.
- ng12 4y agoMan, I hope so. I really think this makes Twitter more toxic than Facebook ever was. Somehow the vocal minority on Twitter getting riled up about something always gets treated as "real news".
- primozk 4y agoGood, it means that "journalists" will have to do some actual research before writing their articles.
- cwkoss 4y agoIf Elon Musk can reform the bluecheck system to stop lending 'journalist' credibility to 'professional take-havers', he will have done society a great service.
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- hstan4 4y agoThis is spot on. It’s pretty absurd to constantly see the top “news” articles be “_____ says that _____” with the entire article just mentioning context of a tweet of some famous person.