erin mccann |Verified account

studies have pretty consistently found that people who rely on TV (local news or cable) as their main source of news are the least informed. It's a passive experience, and it's limited by time constraints. That's not a judgment on TV viewers, it's just one piece of a puzzle.

And 2 on that point, which is a little bit of a judgement yes, what about the CNN viewing experience in the last few years leads you to believe that they're interested in informing you of the important news of the day?

(Which leads to my favorite of yesterday's comments, which is that I am elitist scum for suggesting that people are responsible in even small ways for seeking out the news and making themselves informed.)

(As long as I am responding specifically to some of the nastier tweets from yesterday, no, other lady who also called me elitist scum, it is not my job to sit around personally sending you links all day just to prove my point, because at the end you still wouldn't believe me.)

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 …

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.

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.

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