Are journalists serving Virginia's voters well? Election could offer insights on media on national level
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Are journalists serving Virginia's voters well? Election could offer insights on media on national level
If the election outcome is as I expected, it should cause the large minority of the country who supported @KamalaHarris and predicted her victory to begin to question their sources of truth.
Half the country has believed that @X is filled with mis- and disinformation, and that they could only therefore rely on The NY... See more
Bill Ackmanx.comThe psychologist Philip Fernbach said one of the most pressing problems facing public discourse, one only exacerbated by the information age, is the growing gap between what people think they know and what they actually know. (In fact, people have been shown to mistake what they can Google for their own knowledge.) In the next stage of its... See more
All journalism should be service journalism
Debugging Tech Journalism—Asterisk
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It’s this shift towards explanatory, focused, fact-based (rather than opinion-based), audience-centric news where the journalists are the professionals that people connect with rather than mere reporters who pretend to know nothing while providing random news.
Gen Z are not looking to get thousands of random news stories. They are looking for... See more
Gen Z are not looking to get thousands of random news stories. They are looking for... See more
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The traditional view of the press was never based on some contrived, mathematical notion of “balance,” i.e. five paragraphs of Republicans for every five paragraphs of Democrats. The ideal instead was that we showed you everything we could see, good and bad, ugly and not, trusting that a better-informed public would make better decisions. This... See more