Coronavirus and Credibility: http://paulgraham.com/cred.html
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And to be fair there’s immense social utility, including in these trying times, in the press’ unique privileges like “Can call someone at any e.g. hospital with expectation that they’ll answer factual questions much of time” and “Watched/read by policy makers.”
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Immense, unique, social utility that a few willingly squander.
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This is the key dodge, the effort to pass responsibility along to another- never named- individual in the collective, who themselves of course is not to be considered representative of the whole. But in the social media age, the headline is the point; the article is the excuse.
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"we decide which collectives have members that represent the whole, and which don't, and we reserve the right to change these judgements as we see fit" is pretty much the default stance of most of the media organizations referenced
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Twitter seemed like a better source of info than news
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Part of the difference is that tech Twitter is judging media on its final outputs; journalists live in a day to day where they’re fighting their editors (who set headlines) on everything, and so for whatever reasons don’t see themselves as responsible for rest of value chain
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