Old media have tried to bury truths all the time, I personally think the new media with people commenting stuff on twitter is more truthfull than the old new coverage.
This Guardian article is more like a flame war from someone who does not get to deicide what the media agenda is no more.
The alternative media, was much better at covering Erdoğan power takeover than main media in my opinion.
I don't doubt that the ability to have the average man on the street report on things and upload them to twitter etc. is a force for good, but the potential for miscommunication due to the lack of structure surrounding such uploads is a weakness that traditional media does not experience given that all work must pass editors in those cases. I know that doesn't stop all BS stories but its a check/balance at least that doesn't currently exist at all on social media.
The traditional media still definitely does have that weakness, being first to publish is a huge push in the news media. Why do you think the "Hands up, don't shoot" in Ferguson managed to get so big amongst all of the traditional media players?
The game for truth was lost long ago in the MSM. I wish they would turn into their Turkey counterparts, at least the average citizen would be less likely to blindly trust it.
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 22.7 ms ] threadRead the article by: Cringely "News we aren't supposed to know", http://www.cringely.com/2016/12/15/news-arent-supposed-know/ which descibes old situations where the media did not report anything about events which had big impacts.
This Guardian article is more like a flame war from someone who does not get to deicide what the media agenda is no more. The alternative media, was much better at covering Erdoğan power takeover than main media in my opinion.