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This is exactly backwards and a concept of traditional media snobs (not to mention moral hazard of recommending media that gets you paid). People need to pay more attention to making twitter etc work for them despite the FUD rather than retreat in the face of it.
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"People need to pay more attention to reading books and reading real news rather than getting their news off of Twitter, quite frankly." -Julie K. Brown, investigative reporter for the Miami Herald
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Retreat to books and “real” news and you retreat to exactly where you’re rendered an NPC. Sure only a small minority are active in twitter etc, but the disproportionately move sentiment and drive the news cycle. Going to Twitter is like going to primary sources.
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And note that “respectable” media is increasingly just delayed and cleaned up clickbait and outrage. NYT is worst offender but I bet Miami Herald is no exception. Books too, now pander to social media. In fact 90% of new books published could be twitter threads of 1% length.
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And traditional media is FAR more responsible for creating this shitshow than new media. Fox News, talk radio, books by rabble rousers. Crackpot tomes on every subject. Look at top selling books in several contentious categories as points out.
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I’ve been a big reader and occasional writer of book and traditional media, and I owe a lot to it, but I’m kinda sick of bullshit old-media supremacism. The signal to noise ratio of humanity’s output is pretty consistent across media. 99% on *any* mass medium is likely junk.
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Given medium-agnostic regression to the mean, new media gives you two legit advantages if you can keep up: speed and rawness. If you want delayed, patronizing coddling by clueless intermediaries who have high Oxford comma literacy but abysmal sentiment literacy go old media.
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The hypocrisy is breathtaking, glibly comparing best of books to worst of tweets. Try comparing the best twitter threads to the worst books? Or best to best? Or median to median? Put SOME sincere thought into comparisons instead of self-congratulatory virtue signaling to peers.
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The sanctimonious, self-satisfied circle jerk angriest up my blood. This is access-journalism crowd. This is crony crowd. This is “fishing on Twitter for outrage to amplify” crowd. This is lazy take crowd. As for the holy cow of investigative journalism...
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This is the crowd that had to wait for me-too to blow up on social media before “investigating” what it had covered up for years. This is the crowd that now relies on Wikileaks and Snowden and whistleblowers This is the crowd that only investigates convenient things
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Sure Pro Publica, Knight, are fighting valiantly as are parts of WaPo etc, but it is deeply disingenuous to hide behind that sorry residue of a better past to beat up on new media. “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM” “Nobody ever got fired for recommending more book reading”
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