I don't actually think excelling in Instagram 101 should be a requirement for being a politics reporter. They're busy enough as it is.
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With apologies to Taylor, who is great, I want to pick at this line of thinking a bit, because i think it's dangerous and simplistic in its own way: https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1083793172520673284 …
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I think two things are simultaneously true: a) we as an industry undervalue the importance of ONLINE THINGS, and b) we also suck at explaining the translation of those things to normal people (see: point a again, because we undervalue...)
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I said this the other day, and it remains true — and i meant ALL of us in that grouping, the politics folks, the online folks, the casual tweeters. We don't have any way to handle the firehose of online we're walking into.https://twitter.com/mccanner/status/1081253163594903552 …
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Many of us live far more online than our readers do. It's our job to help them navigate and weigh the online — while respecting the online as just as real, which as an industry we still don't do very well.
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@TaylorLorenz that we all need to be smarter and more careful about how we report around viral stuff, and how misinformation takes seed. I just think that's everyone's responsibility, not just political reporters.Show this thread -
(taylor apologized for and deleted the tweet that actually got my brow furrowed.) https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1083802257513160704 …
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I think there's a lot of noise On Here. And a lot of stuff that FEELS like noise but is actually very important. And a lot of media doesn't bother to suss out the difference. And we all have a lot of exploring to do before we get to a common language on all of this.
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(and secretly i don't think we're ever going to have a common language on What Online Stuff Matters, because that answer is different for every reporter and every news organization. But it's going to be very messy for a while, regardless.)
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there's just still this utter DISMISSAL in certain corners - e.g. who in 2019 is still saying "New blog!" instead of "new post" or whatever - the 'social media intern' sneering. instead of finding an expert to educate you on what it is and what it means.
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