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achughes  ·  4238 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: We're all journalists now

Its amazing the kneejerk reaction that everybody has been having to the role that social media served in all of this. Fast news is not reliable, and everybody was just reporting what they heard on the police scanner, and that's not journalism.

Personally I like my news fast, and then an after-action report to get all of the facts right.





geneusutwerk  ·  4237 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I like my news slow and accurate. The only exception is if it is directly effecting me (if I were in Boston for example).

Not to say that either of these is right or wrong though. I just don't trust everyone to read the "after-action report", instead they will go on thinking they know what happened when they don't.