That’s not Benioff or Dorsey’s fault. The news media & public attention is just much more attracted to the narrative of disagreeing billionaires than it is to the people who’ve lost their housing or who have been chronically homeless for years.https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1054120006701670400 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Sure, but we can all amplify people. Especially with communications experts on staff and enormously powerful platforms to do so.
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Replying to @anildash @kimmaicutler
Over 80 news organizations came together for in-depth homelessness stories in 2016, and it's an issue we and our colleagues cover almost daily. We try hard to amplify the voices of people suffering.https://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/
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Replying to @rolandlisf @anildash
No I totally remember that. But I would wonder whether the traffic from the Dorsey-Benioff story is higher for less effort and resources than many of the SF Homeless Project stories.
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The outlets who do shallow issue reporting tend to be national. But anyway, there is a place to find all the policy issues explained, incl Prop c: http://sfchronicle.com . There’s a voter guide AND a Prop c story up.
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Replying to @audreyhasnews @audreycoopersf and
Yeah I was thinking of NYT, Vanity Fair, etc.
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Those both have some great local reporters who have been in SF for years, but of course their focus is on tech, not the city. I was reading, I think it was "Valley of Genius": different is many East Coast papers sees tech coverage as a business story, while West sees as cultural
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Replying to @rolandlisf @kimmaicutler and
Of course to do a good job you have to cover both the enormous wealth and financial effects and the deep cultural and civic impacts, which is hard!
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Maybe I’d turn it around on the readers,
@audreycoopersf, and point out things like [hours spent on well-researched homeless story with actual POVs from people living w/out housing vs. pageviews] and [billionaires fighting story vs. pageviews]2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
to show people they get the coverage they deserve.
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