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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How of the hundreds of tweets I saw on the Church of England and marriage yesterday, only one person appeared to have clicked through to the article and felt the headline had deliberately missold the story for clicks, but that doing so will increasing lead to....
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...near identikit jokes/comments from people looking for a couple of likes, but no real traffic spike and much less time spent on the site reading in total. Has anyone ever clicked one of the Indy’s “[X] happened and everyone made the same joke” articles?
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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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Replying to @DawnHFoster
Oh yeah that seemed to come out of nowhere today but it has been v hard to find useful context for it
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Yeah, it’s worrying because it means if you want to find more context, Wikipedia will likely become your go to if Google’s deliberately unhelpful, but then on politics, whoever wins the moderation war on that page will have a huge impact.
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