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The BBC pulled that article/episode - which is the main difference between different media spheres today. We are habituated to think of information as the fund
by intended 1y ago
The BBC pulled that article/episode - which is the main difference between different media spheres today.
We are habituated to think of information as the fundament of the internet. When in reality the foundation is simply content.
High quality information is content which is verified, or has a chain of sources. This is expensive to produce.
The information consumer primarily consumes emotionally salient content. Maybe 20% of the time they are willing to exert themselves to consume cognitively demanding content.
With the end of classifieds, the end of ad revenue, the dominance of platforms - news is a dumb ass business to expect to survive. They make expensive goods and sell it for cheap.
That’s why theres entire media spheres which are incredibly effective today - because they don’t spend the money to verify, they spend the money to platform narratives that take off.
The economics of the fourth estate dont make sense, and this needs an answer.
We depend on informed voters to have functioning democracies.
- BugsJustFindMe 1y ago> The BBC pulled that article/episode Pulling after publishing isn't much better. The damage has already been done. The story has already been absorbed by viewers. The viewers are already spreading the thing they saw to each other. The information narrative has already been influenced. It is blatant dereliction of responsibility to publish something in the first place without checking and relying on later outcry to go "oopsie daisies".
- simonw 1y agoMy number one sign of a credible news organization is what they do when they realize they have published incorrect information.
- fn-mote 1y agoHow do we think this compares to scientific journals not issuing retractions to articles? Only the absolute most bald-faced misconduct will get a retraction issued... For scientific publishing, the damage continues and a retraction is a much more helpful response.
- intended 1y agoNews agencies will make mistakes, it happens. The difference is entirely in how you respond to it. There’s mainstream “news” networks which wont even do that.