K5SS Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 1 hour ago, polizzio said: A couple of network reporters have been suspended because they reported that all of KB's children were on the helo and had died. They ran with info which had not been verified. Read the article on yahoo earlier today. https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2020/01/30/matt-gutman-suspended-abc-news-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash The media's reputation has been fractured. Our lust for instant information, whether correct or not, has put the media in a compromised position. If they wait to gather the facts, they are doomed as the report will come out after the cycle. If they rush a report out without properly researching the story, and in their haste, put out wrong info, they slowly diminish their reputation. The Nick Sandman put a large crack in CNN's reputation, and bank account. << Not political, just a fact. Please do not lock the thread. Haha. The instant information media outlets are winning for now but the average person is starting to realize that the old days of reporting a story with facts is likely long gone. Or, was that trust just us all being naïve, due to the lack of access to peek behind the curtains, like we now can with the invention of internet? The reason that the instant information media types are still winning is that they get the majority of a story's clicks right when the story drops, even if it's wrong. The retraction usually happens a couple days later, by then the masses have already moved on to the next celebrity with a new butt implant. The incorrect article is basically so far down the feed at that point that nobody sees the retraction. They've already been paid for the spike in activity so who really cares. We are the problem, but surely, none of us wants to hear that. I have restricted my news intake to about an hour each night. "Breaking" news still trickles through though, across the various social media sites and text messages, no way around that unless you revert to the 90's. It's basically the damn*d if you do, damn*d if you don't scenario. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 It is no different than it has ever been, except for the speed. No one is perfect, everyone has an angle, and everyone should, in a free society, realize it. The alternatives are so much more negative to a free society that there should be no question that an attack on the concept is an attack on us all. Retractions and corrections happen all of the time, and always have. You are completely correct if the public pays no attention because they have succumbed to "short attention span theater" that the blame lies in the reflection of the mirror. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 On 1/30/2020 at 3:50 PM, oldtimer said: You are completely correct if the public pays no attention because they have succumbed to "short attention span theater" that the blame lies in the reflection of the mirror. What if the man in the mirror lies? You are 100% correct in that everyone has an angle -- not saying that is a bad thing, just a fact. Can't recall who said this, "The test of whether or not you believe in free speech is not when you can say whatever you want, it's when you let someone else say the things that you don't like." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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