People seem to equate the number of stories to how important the media thinks something is. Even in this case, when there was a lot of daily coverage in the major sites and papers, it was never going to be enough for some folks.
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But to get back on track for a minute, yes THIS, which is an extrapolation of what I was saying about twitter and the news yesterday: https://twitter.com/twallack/status/970321838575321088?s=21 …
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By their behavior, the audience is *incredibly* fractured now. We really don't have a way right now, outside historic and huge events, to all have the same experience of the news. To all be consuming the same information.
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Some of the complaints (why did X get 20 stories and Y got 5?) are a result of this fracture. Sites putting up multiple files trying to grab readers in different places so they'll get a taste and then click around and maybe at the end walk away informed about Story.
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(Which is why the numbers argument is never going to be a winning one with me.)
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Wrapping up, or getting close to it, this idea of "why isn't the media covering something" when in fact the media IS covering something extensively, is not going to go away. We had this argument about West Virginia this weekend. It'll be something else next month.
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Some news orgs are moving toward personalization. Some put all their eggs in the FB basket (oops). CNN has a massive website that covers all sorts of things you don't see on air there. That means there is no one shared news experience.
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By their behavior and consumption choices, readers and viewers already know this. But it's taking a lot of our brains a while to catch up to this particular reality. That's true about news, specifically, and it's also about a lot of other things about life in 2018!
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I don't have a pithy way to end this. Crap. Uh, here is a gif of Michael Keaton in "The Paper," the very best news movie ever. I think he's probably responding to a reader complaint here.pic.twitter.com/hY7IDUtjWJ
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(Couple of addendum for the new folks in my mentions: -- If your response is "corporate media hates unions," hi hello the NYT newsroom is unionized as are many (but not nearly enough) others. -- I DO have pink hair! Thanks for noticing. Pointing that out is not an insult.)
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This is where we can really start to see the rubber meeting the road in terms of this era's dangers to democracy: no shared experience of reality = no basis for the kind of "general will" Rousseau thought a precondition for a shared social contract and self-governance.
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