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It only wins if it supplies and continues to supply correct and timely information. The internet is like the telephone game with millions of people and until s
by bugs 17y ago
It only wins if it supplies and continues to supply correct and timely information.
The internet is like the telephone game with millions of people and until something changes I trust my local news station many times more than the internet on breaking news stories.
- jsankey 17y agoWhere the key word is correct. It would be very easy to spread a bogus story via, e.g. Twitter. It would be debunked quite quickly too -- but the fact that it can happen devalues the speed with which things are reported. Those in the profession of reporting news do provide the value of actually checking their sources (or, at least, they should).
- potatolicious 17y agoAnd this is the part that society has to cope with - at least for the time being. As a population we are still used to trusting authoritative news sources, ones that are presumably bound by law, ethics, or policy to verify their information. The result is that we react rather quickly to news. This can (and has been) disastrous in internet communities where the news has turned out to be incorrect or fraudulent. The consequence of the Twitter phenomenon is that collectively we all need a much better bullshit filter than the one we have right now.