friendly reminder that scanner traffic is unconfirmed and wow newsweek did you really just do that
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It's important to have standards.pic.twitter.com/o9M2DDT3Q3
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Screenshotting this for posterity: A Newsweek story published in a breaking news event based on scanner traffic — and citing a now-deleted tweet from a reporter for another outlet as the source for that scanner traffic. (it was not true.)pic.twitter.com/DVZ3WiDsrz
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erin mccann | Retweeted erin mccann |
You wanna talk about trust in media and why there isn't any? Readers don't know what Newsweek is now. A brand they used to trust is peddling crap — and they weren't the only ones — in a moment when verified facts are all that matter.https://twitter.com/mccanner/status/981527338189025280 …
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erin mccann |Verified account @mccannerScreenshotting this for posterity: A Newsweek story published in a breaking news event based on scanner traffic — and citing a now-deleted tweet from a reporter for another outlet as the source for that scanner traffic. (it was not true.) pic.twitter.com/DVZ3WiDsrzShow this thread1 reply 4 retweets 11 likesShow this thread
"Readers should be media literate!" Yeah, they should, that'd be great. But in the real world that exists now we need to be clearer about what we know and what we don't and HOW WE KNOW THE THINGS WE DO.
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