Rant from a news dude...

[Kevin Spidel]

Critique of my industry. It has just gotten so bad, that it has to be said. We can do better.

Crowdsourced journalism via Twitter and Reddit has matured to become an ecosystem that fact checks itself. It took too many blunders on social media for us to be where we are at now, but the community has matured. This week has hit the cross roads where news agencies have to perfect their collection of facts via new media and report 24/7 with higher standards that we give ourselves as a community, yet operate faster that viral. Can it be done? I say yes. Because let's be honest. The news is broken.


"The News is Broken" - A perspective from a news marketer on new media, exploiting news, & correctly reporting

[Jenoch]

1. "Crowdsourced journalism via Twitter and Reddit has matured to become an ecosystem

that fact checks itself."

I'm not sure exactly what is meant by this statement. If taken literally, it says that Twitter and Reddit 'fact check themselves' and the tweets and reddits are factually correct. I completely disagree with that. Tweets are not journalism.

[Kevin Spidel]

3. reporting vs eyewitness

there is a difference. But when people don't eyewitness and post facts in hearsay in these ecosystems, there are many peers who debunk, or support through crowdsourced social capital. that is what I mean. peer influence in what is being stated as fact.

[Jenoch]

6. I do undterstand it,

and maybe the facts come out correctly eventually. But this sort of 'reporting' is not journalism. Blogging is not journalism either. There are too many websites and sources of 'news' where there is a specific political or social viewpoint. I'm not a big fan of 'citizen journalism' for that reason.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. + about a million. It's pathetic how every news source is quickly becoming

the Weekly World News. https://www.google.com/search?q=weekly+world+news&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=8dFyUZHyH4_h0wHtwYGQBg&ved=0CGAQsAQ&biw=2560&bih=1353

But at least most people knew that was BS.

[Kevin Spidel]

4. the infotaiment needs to end.

Really AZ Central posting about a history of explosions the day of the explosion that everyone is grieving. Bad form Gannett.

[L0oniX]

5. ...and they are reframe artists.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Yeah, but it takes walking the streets and calling sources

To get it right...that takes time.