This isn’t a “this is a very important and underdiscussed topic” thread, just a conversational thread of things I’ve noticed about treatment of certain news stories over the past two days, while writing about what the BBC’s future should be, so thinking about the media.
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The story of the mummified Egyptian priest was packaged and written up in a huge number of really interesting, creative ways and was a really good case study for how you can really experiment with form to suit your particular audience regardless of age/interest/disability
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I saw it packaged to kids, historians, deaf people, people with no knowledge of mummification or ancient Egypt, people specifically from Leeds, in video, text, audio and an interactive. All shared differently with different angles by people on Twitter and Facebook.
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Also found it was increasingly hard to find the origin/facts behind stories it’s assumed everyone’s talking about on Twitter, and so easier to avoid story details altogether if you want to on both.
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Every story I read about a “social media controversy” majorly overstated the controversy, and often used it as a hook to write about a subject without needing to justify it, or ignored specifics on who was aggrieved, framing it as an amorphous blob v blob within the culture wars
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Google defaulting to show you most recent results first in straight searches is both incredibly annoying but also means it’s much harder to find context even in recent history, around the coronavirus.
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But the biggest thing I noticed was how unusable the Independent/New Statesman websites are: WAPO put two whole pages of “accept our terms” bunf before you hit your link, but that left me calm cos the site works, unlike jumping pages & ads that load slowly while text disappears.
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An article on my site can be shared 1000 times with just 63 people clicking it. It's demoralising tbh. I could write a explosive headline with an article saying blah blah 500 times, and most people wouldn't notice.
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I think you have just explained why anyone who wants to find out what's going on in the World, or who has a serious point to make, is wasting their time on Twitter. Present company excepted.
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