I haven’t written about the economics of information recently. A Financial Times blog post blaming Facebook and Google for the election has changed that.
Category Archives: Media
Was the first 2016 presidential debate really the “most watched ever”?
The first presidential debate of 2016 with 84 million network TV viewers edges out the 1980 debate with its 81 million. But is this the right comparison?
Culturally tone-deaf newsrooms shine in the 2016 Olympics
Thursday night’s San Jose Mercury News racist tweet has capped a week of sexist and cultural tone-deaf commentary from the Rio Olympics. #mediaFail
Deconstructing the Dallas narrative: not triangulation but a lone shooter
One of the nine points that OnTheMedia makes in its Breaking News Handbook is this: 4. There’s almost never a second shooter. For most of Thursday evening and into Friday morning, news reports directly contradicted this claim. So much so that at the end of the day, I was wondering if it would be proved wrong. The […]
Essential behavior during breaking news events: think before sharing
It has not been a good week. Tuesday: Baton Rouge Wednesday: St. Paul Thursday: Dallas And so, I come on Twitter after hours of writing to find out that this day has gotten WORSE. Good God. #Dallas #BlackLivesMatter — KristineKathrynRusch (@KristineRusch) July 8, 2016 Dallas #blm protest was so orderly, peaceful that cops were posing […]
AP calls Democratic nomination for Clinton; in defense, says we didn’t say “nominee”
I can’t help it. I keep hearing “I didn’t have sexual relations with that woman” over and over on the virtual cassette player in my brain. That ignominious statement is the dictionary illustration for the concept we call “political hairsplitting.” It’s where my mind raced when it bumped into this dichotomy from AP. Entry 1, Monday evening, […]