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Most US newspapers also haven't been long on the analysis, history and erudition that lets us make wise choices. And they were conspicuously quiet about a lot o
by teeja 17y ago
Most US newspapers also haven't been long on the analysis, history and erudition that lets us make wise choices. And they were conspicuously quiet about a lot of significant questions during the Bush years. Who can you trust? I tuned into The Guardian a lot.
In that sense, US papers made their own bad situation worse. They chose poorly. Too damn bad - for us all.
My reaction to Twitter being mentioned in the same paragraph as journalism is that we're in trouble. Any evolutionary biologist will tell you that the facts aren't part of the social provinces.
- unalone 17y ago> My reaction to Twitter being mentioned in the same paragraph as journalism is that we're in trouble. Any evolutionary biologist will tell you that the facts aren't part of the social provinces. They aren't by default, I agree. I don't think we'll ever have a world of fact-checkers and I'm glad we never will. But I think it's likely that we'll see groups of passionate writers who strive for accuracy in their writing, not because it's an organization but because it's their individual style. Just like the world of tech blogging has led to these ecospheres, where there's the TechCrunch/Mashable crowd and then the Gruber/Kottke/Mann crowd, and each one has a different approach that different sorts of people like.