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

markb · 1 year 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 · 1 year ago

Thanks, Mark. I totally agree. And that Shirky speech was excellent.
rafi · 1 year ago

Wow, talk about overload... Good article but this is really not written with our attention scarcity in mind.