Re: Trust and the news
Originally Posted by
thomas
We don't live on just french fries, we don't get our news from one source. Read widely and often. A piece of news is just that. A piece. No scholar would make a conclusion based on one slim bit of information. Neither should we, in any situation.
For the example above, the AP bit - what was the timing on that? Was it posted very early as the event was beginning? Not challenging by asking, just wanting more information.
I certainly agree with the need to look at more than one source. However, I think most people don't do that....they find a news channel, a paper, etc. that they are comfortable with and stick to it.
As for the timing, I don't know for sure. If you look at the actual tweet it is stamped 2:01AM Jan 24. The 2nd reply that I see has several pictures (one that I borrowed in my post) and is stamped 2:13AM Jan 24. I have no idea if the timestamps reflect the local time for each poster or if the replies in the thread are keyed to the original post.
Originally Posted by
theflashunc
It's not that the AP can't decide on a number. I'll wager it's a function of how wire stories like this work and their fundamental incompatibility with social media. If bet that tweet came from the first version of the story to cross the wire early in the day. As the story evolves the reporters and editors are making pretty rapid updates to the story trunk as the events progress -- crowd grows in size, they get quotes from speeches or attendees, etc etc. But the tweet still hangs out there with the initial version of what they could reliably report. This isn't the AP can't get it's facts straight, because the story does tell the story. But their social team clearly isn't talking to the desk editors managing the story trunk, or someone's not in the mid morning or mid afternoon editorial meeting to review the top stories on the calendar.
You could be right, it's certainly a possibility. But I do know that more and more, a lot of news organizations are towing the government line. Sadly, I have little trust with US news sources these days.
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