the fastest way to bad information

[hi_im_god]

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...ors_picks=true

the internet is a fantastic tool for the dissemination of information.

good, bad, and just made up.

[GenuineRisk]

I saw the FB page of the missing kid who was briefly incorrectly identified as a suspect. What a horrible thing for the family to have to go through, on top of the agony they're already suffering from their son being missing for so long.

[hi_im_god]

http://www.latimes.com/business/tech...,5084537.story

props to reddit for doing the right thing and apologizing. it took hundreds of years for print journalism to develop the tools needed to avoid the kinds of traps that on line media seems to step in over and over. at least in this case, one organization recognized the error which gives hope that next time they'll handle it differently.

crowd sourcing can be an effective tool for some jobs. but having panicked ninny's wildly speculating and passing that off as "journalism" is about as far from effective as you can get.

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...ors_picks=true

the internet is a fantastic tool for the dissemination of information.

good, bad, and just made up.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe...ticle11501467/

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe...ticle11501467/

Got an email from a friend on above story...somebody make some

Did you hear about A/P getting hacked ? Someone sent out a tweet from the Associated Press this afternoon saying that the White House had two explosions in it and Obama was injured. The stock market went from being +135 to negative 143. Then the A/P announced it has been hacked and the stock market went back up. Some people made billions on that fake tweet.

[Danzig]

not just the internet. with so many news agencies trying to be 'first' there's too many mis-steps. witness john king, cnn and their mess the other day, announcing an arrest-and then having to backtrack.
and how is wolf blitzer still employed? and susan candiotti--did she really not have time to come up with a better phrase to describe the ghost town that was boston friday? did she really think 'it looks like a bomb had been dropped' was a good way to put it?

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

not just the internet. with so many news agencies trying to be 'first' there's too many mis-steps. witness john king, cnn and their mess the other day, announcing an arrest-and then having to backtrack.
and how is wolf blitzer still employed? and susan candiotti--did she really not have time to come up with a better phrase to describe the ghost town that was boston friday? did she really think 'it looks like a bomb had been dropped' was a good way to put it?

Stewart was all over CNN for all their goofs...that bomb line all time goof..

[dellinger63]

Tried to sell Stewart, "That last aborted baby to swim out of the toilet was Ryan Lochte. Ever since then they've kept the toilet seats down" Maybe I should have used philly or Obama in the joke?