DISQUS

Mathew's comments: Journalism: Filtering, interpretation, context

  • markb · 11 months ago
    The Wire's David Simon is more concise on the topic in his talk "The Audacity of Despair" http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/webcast_Simo...
    Highly recommended. HT @hughmcguire

    He says journalists have simply stopped asking 'why'.

    Yes there is a filter problem -- see Shirky's excellent speech at Web2.0NYC http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/1277460/ -- but journalism doesn't have to get all academic to solve its problems. Forget the attention economy. Forget complicated filtering. Rediscover the 'why' and readers will find you.
  • mathewi · 11 months ago
    Thanks, Mark. I totally agree. And that Shirky speech was excellent.
  • rafi · 11 months ago
    Wow, talk about overload... Good article but this is really not written with our attention scarcity in mind.