Dan Gillmour on Slow News (140conf)

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Dan Gillmour

“So much, and so much is garbage and so much is false. So much information changes, after Sarah Palin said her famous remarks about Paul Revere and her fans tried to change the Wikipedia page to reflect what she said.

The challenge of news velocity. We have to face the fact that speed of the way the news comes at us is causing us issues that we have to work on.

BBC has pretty good rules, but got fooled by the gay girl in Damascus. What are we going to do about this? We, the readers?

We need to think about news as we use this rapid-fire process. Slow news process.

Boils down to taking a breath, not automatically reacting and assuming anything at first glance.”

 

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