People have a lot of ideas about how news orgs indicate that something is a big deal. Number of tweets. A small A1 blurb vs a full page inside. Why isn't it leading the homepage. Why didn't it get a push alert.
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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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The paper where I worked for 27 years was obsessed with metrics. If one story was good, five that 'advanced' the story (but were virtually identical) were better and 15 better still as long as they got clicks
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(I do sometimes use metrics to help me guide whether a followup is worth doing -- was an audience surprisingly large for a story? Maybe that means people are more interested than i thought, and I should dig more to find out why.)
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