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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Feb 2019
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    Wish news outlets would just report news instead of trying to tell me a “story”

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      2. Andy Raskin‏ @araskin 20 Feb 2019
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        Andy Raskin Retweeted Jay Rosen

        You might enjoy this threadhttps://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1077608240979038209 …

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        Jay RosenVerified account @jayrosen_nyu
        I don't know how our journalists came to see "storytelling" as the heart of what they do, and "storyteller" as a self-description. I can think of 4-5 elements of journalism more central than "story." Truthtelling, grounding public conversation in fact, verification... listening.
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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Feb 2019
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        Oh yeah I vaguely recall seeing this now

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      2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 17 Feb 2019
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        is this a riff off of the "wish brands would sell me their products instead of their vision", or is the similarity a coincidence

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      3. Theresia Tanzil‏ @theresiatanzil 17 Feb 2019
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        I prefer facts without narratives. I prefer products with whys. Well, excluding toilet paper and basic necessities.

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      2. Noah Rosenberg‏ @nrose 17 Feb 2019
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        Soon journalism will collapse to just be Uber-style stringers reporting all news in bullet point fact format and openai’s GPT2 will turn it into whatever prose you want. Like by this summer. I’m not joking or exaggerating. Short all media companies.

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      3. Noah Rosenberg‏ @nrose 17 Feb 2019
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        You don’t even need reporters for video. You can use cheap CGI, use google voice with ums and pauses, and deepfake whatever reporter’s face you want over it. You just need enough GPU cycles. It’s game over, man. Game over.

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      1. Peter Wang‏ @pwang 18 Feb 2019
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        What?! Are you for real saying this??

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      2. Ivan Kozik‏ @ivankozik 17 Feb 2019
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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events …

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        Came here to say this

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      1. damian‏ @damian0815 17 Feb 2019
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        from “Encoding, Decoding” by Stuart Hall (1973): events simply cannot be communicating without being encoded in language, which is *always* an act of storytelling.pic.twitter.com/LSWXOF2bMd

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