
News:
read this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html …
Note @nytimes fails to call out predatory delay and distraction in headline piece today: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/us/politics/trump-speech-mass-shootings-dayton-el-paso.html …
The "mental illness" and "video games" excuses are *lies*. There aren't "both sides" of a lie 
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The Times *does* good journalism on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-death-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html?searchResultPosition=4 … ...it just totally fails to connect dots in either reportage or editing on current events. So what's the point, even?
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People seem to expect that there is a mechanism like endlessly revised internal position papers on Issues, updated after news events. In my experience, news does not have that culture outside of standards/style or the minds of individual editors overseeing differently paced work.
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...which is why they put people on beats and give stories to those folks rather than whoever is hanging out by the watercooler. Need context to get to truth and push back on BS. Two WH correspondents writing the A1 lead on this w/o beat help is


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I understand the point *and* it still doesn't track with what I know of internal mechanisms in newsrooms. The ways humans complicate things is astonishing (+ or -). This is very helpful critique and a facet news could clarify better. Yet it's among the hardest for editors to see.
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/me puts on engineering hat Maybe there's a CMS/ML tool that could help here? Run the draft through a corpus of previous coverage and pull out a "what we know" brief in real time?
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You wouldn't like what the result says about humanity. Or the editing process. [Sausage factory metaphor]
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Reporters don't get into the business because they're fundamentally optimistic about human nature, do they?
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It figured it was sort of like when I worked in security: morbid curiosity fed by terrifying confirmation and a steady stream of "oh, I didn't know it could get *that* bad..."
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That's probably a good contrast. You never can trust the narrative you hear from anything, the information you have will never be more than piecemeal (except maybe way too after the fact) and you have to make a call in minutes while other people make active changes in real time.
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