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CNN's Don Lemon Laments "Media Spectacle" At Michael Brown's Funeral (While Broadcasting From Funeral) - Daily Surge

CNN's Don Lemon Laments "Media Spectacle" At Michael Brown's Funeral (While Broadcasting From Funeral) - Daily Surge | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From dailysurge.com - August 28, 2014 3:35 AM

As Their Ratings Skyrocket, CNN's Don Lemon Laments: Michael Brown Funeral Should Be More than "Media Spectacle"


Today was Michael Brown’s funeral. #MikeBrownFuneral was a top trend on Twitter. Multiple media outlets live streamed the service. Al Sharpton eulogized. At least three Obama administration officials attended. The Nation of Islam covered crowd control. Countless celebrities and entertainers were in attendance, and t-shirts were sold.


One thing is clear: Trumped by the politics of self-interest and ratings-boosting media narratives, Michael Brown’s death stopped being about Michael Brown almost immediately after he was pronounced dead....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

"Don Lemon tweeted about taking a “break from twitter today in respect for parents & lives lost. Not choosing sides.” He tweeted that with a picture of him hugging Michael Brown’s mother. Hashtag: #FAIL ", writes Jerome Hudson. 


Loaded with bitter irony, this post is recommended reading for those who follow journalism.

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'I Think Google's Pretty Dangerous and Thuggish. I’ve Always Said That.'

'I Think Google's Pretty Dangerous and Thuggish. I’ve Always Said That.' | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From www.modernluxury.com - April 28, 2014 1:07 AM

Kara Swisher, outspoken tech journalist, has a lot on her mind....


And then there’s you, whose wife, Megan Smith, is a VP at Google. I don’t have her money. Any of it. Which, I know, is stupid—she has a lot. We split everything 50/50. I went out of my way not to take her money because I wanted to make a point: I take it seriously. I don’t write about Google except to insult the company. Someone actually said once that I’m in the camp for Google, so I sent them my pieces, and they said, “You must have problems in your marriage because you’re so mean to Google.” I was like, “I do not, but thank you so much.” They were like, “Seriously, you could be nicer; they are pretty fantastic,” and I was like, “Not to me. I think they’re pretty dangerous and thuggish.” I’ve always said that...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Kara Swisher takes no prisoners in high-tech journalism.

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MH17: how Storyful’s ‘social sleuthing’ helped verify evidence

MH17: how Storyful’s ‘social sleuthing’ helped verify evidence | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - July 28, 2014 1:19 AM

Ben Cardew: Stories such as the shooting down of the Malaysia Airlines plane show the importance of checking Twitter and YouTube content.


In the aftermath of an event as tragically uncertain as the MH17 plane disaster, amid claim and counterclaim about who was responsible, it becomes ever more important for news organisations to verify the validity of material on social media.


This is where social news agency Storyful and its Open Newsroom  come into their own. The Dublin-based company – acquired by News Corp for €18m in December 2013 – specialises in finding and verifying news content on social media. Open Newsroom, which Storyful launched on Google+  in June 2013, is “a real-time community of news professionals” whose objective is to “debunk, fact-check, clarify, credit and source” information around big news stories....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Verification is a challenge for journalism and citizen journalists alike.

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How breaking news is breaking us: The rush to report Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death

How breaking news is breaking us: The rush to report Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From www.salon.com - February 5, 2014 1:31 AM

News of a celebrity's death can now spread across Twitter before the family's informed. That doesn't mean it should.


Philip Seymour Hoffman died yesterday. This was the first and only thing we were told. Arguably, we were told too soon. The news came via a tweetfrom the Wall Street Journal, preceded by that all-too-familiar word, “Breaking.”


But aside from the text of the tweet itself, there was no additional reporting to verify the announcement. That would come approximately 17 minutes later. In the interim, the news went viral. Online publications were willing to believe the Wall Street Journal before it posted a news brief to corroborate its tweet, but prefaced its own writeups and retweets with disclaimers like, “no confirmation yet, but …”


Readers were also reticent as they sent the news further into the world, asking, “Is anyone else reporting this?” Some expressed their hopes that the news was a hoax....

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Salon looks at the challenge of reporting celebrity deaths and the speed of the internet with the need for closer consideration of ethics. It's an important debate.

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