I've always believed social media is an excellent supplement to traditional media, especially when it comes to avoiding traditional's horrible tendency to just repeat the same damn thing over and over again. I agree that an excellent media company would help aggregate and filter the wheat from the chaf.
Keep well, sir. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:26 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the national perspective. Things are stabilizing a bit for the > town where I live, but it is the nature of the beast that good news for us > is bad news for someone else. We have had a lot of refugees in our town, > and the stories they tell are harrowing. We are getting some cool and moist > weather now, so that should help a bit, though the first is still only 5% > contained last time I checked on that. We are still under Evacuation Alert, > but I was able to go to sleep last night without worrying that I might wake > up in an inferno, having slept through an Evac Notice. > > I am still an incompetent Twitter user, and not always sure exactly what > it is good for - but I have learned it is good for things like this. There > has been some bad information that increased panic, but also a lot of good > information we would have had trouble getting any other way - and the video > from various Periscope feeds has been incredible. But for me this does not > argue against formal journalism, but in favor of more of it. I don't want > to have to rely only on social media for this; what I wish is that KCRW > (NBC affiliate in Sacramento, which has done the best job I think of > covering this story) has an ever larger budget and more staff to really > cover this story, interview and vet the sources of twitter reports and > video, and place it in some larger context (when we see dramatic video of > one block on fire, does that mean the whole town is in flames (and > sometimes this weekend it did) or does it mean just that block is? > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
