(1) I’m curious if part of the problem is that the marginal cost of gathering information through Twitter is so much lower, that it’s practically irresistible for increasingly cash constrained media outlets. Traditional…
I think this sort of thinking oversimplifies the problem. While we experience the deterioration of these norms as “the problem”, the deeper issue is the environment that caused them to deteriorate in the first place.…
This is possibly self fulfilling: journalists or others pay more attention to Twitter than they “should”, which gives Twitter a disproportionate degree of influence, in turn justifying why they pay attention to it
(1) I’m curious if part of the problem is that the marginal cost of gathering information through Twitter is so much lower, that it’s practically irresistible for increasingly cash constrained media outlets. Traditional…
I think this sort of thinking oversimplifies the problem. While we experience the deterioration of these norms as “the problem”, the deeper issue is the environment that caused them to deteriorate in the first place.…
This is possibly self fulfilling: journalists or others pay more attention to Twitter than they “should”, which gives Twitter a disproportionate degree of influence, in turn justifying why they pay attention to it