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The Convoluted Life Cycle of a News Story
ideonexus writes "Once upon a time, newspapers were considered the "first draft of history." Today, rather than the daily episodic updates of major news stories developing a narrative over time, we have a perpetual stream of factoids from which a story emerges. Lauren Rabaino of mediabistro details this new lifecycle of a newspaper story, from tweets to blog posts to an eventual print edition, and asks What are the best standards of practice? Should news sources provide a single web address with a stream of updates, post new blog entries that link to older ones, or should they adopt a Wiki approach to the news — revising a single story with a history of revisions available behind the scenes?"
Here in the UK all the news comes from hacking cell phone voicemail systems.
Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.
I thought it was all about complimentary copy advertorials? They actually still have reporters?
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Clearly, we need to crowdsource some disruptive innovation into the news media market. While we do have some convergence of traditional and social media, we also see the vertical and horizontal integration of the printed media becoming more apparent. The alignment of the interests of these groups will need to be achieved in order to leverage and proactively facilitate the advent of media in the New Economy. This goes beyond the reasonable return on investment expected by the established news media. A convergence is needed between the collaboration of brick-and-mortar media and the rising e-media revolution.
That sounds like something Hitler would say!
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
update: Homeless man was not a veteran.
update 2: Unconfirmed whether man was homeless or not.
update 3: Actually the dog bit the man, not the other way around.
update 4: The victim was a 9-year old boy, and the dog was a pit bull mix. Boy lived down the street.
update 5: Owner of the pit bull failed to register dog as dangerous breed with authorities.
update 6: The dog was a fox terrier, no special registration was required.
update 7: Bite by dog not confirmed, but there was a lot of loud barking.
What do they call the part of the news story where the original, unfounded claim, appears on Slashdot 3 months after the internet has declared it dead an buried?
Here in the US all our news comes from the UK from hacking cell phone voicemail systems.