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Lies, Damn Lies and the Latest Tweet | Patrick Daly's Blog — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:12:34 +0000

[...] a recent post on the “slow news” concept, author Dan Gillmor cautions us to “wait for verified facts before you come to [...]

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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:38:52 +0000

[...] news orgs separate themselves from more irresponsible ones. Journalism prof Dan Gillmor wondered if we’re starting to see a “slow news” mentality start to catch [...]

Comment on Slow News Catching On? Boston Tragedy Suggests So by Silona

Silona — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:02:50 +0000

Hey Dana (long time no chat)

I do feel very different about this event where so many citizens were taking photos that they can choose to submit or not versus the always-on red light cameras that are the gateway drug to a surveillance state.

I can’t accurately state my emotional sense in regards to this. But permissions and the consensus of the people to release the content matters. Though considering much of this was done on sites like 4chan… I do still worry of mob rule, ss and such. Though I also desire a public that questions more what it reads, hears and sees. I think it has to do with explicit vs implicit permissions that are event driven…

Comment on Slow News Catching On? Boston Tragedy Suggests So by Trudy W Schuett

Trudy W Schuett — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:03:43 +0000

I was in and out of the car yesterday, and the oddest thing I kept hearing on the radio (NPR) was advice to “stay out of crowds.” As if a group of people was somehow dangerous in itself, and that bothered me.

Comment on Slow News Catching On? Boston Tragedy Suggests So by Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:12:38 +0000

Expert trolling there.

Comment on Slow News Catching On? Boston Tragedy Suggests So by Dana F. Blankenhorn

Dana F. Blankenhorn — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:09:49 +0000

Given how many people were in these locations, with cellphones, taking pictures of everyone and everything around them, I suspect we’ll find there is plenty of surveillance to catch whoever did this.

Little Brother. He’s never been at war with Eastasia.

Comment on Slow News Catching On? Boston Tragedy Suggests So by Andrij O.

Andrij O. — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:06:39 +0000

Knee jerk reactions, promoting a surveillance state agenda to this tragedy would be bad – agreed.

…just like knee jerk reactions to the Newtown, CT tragedy, promoting a gun control and anti- 2nd Ammendment agenda is bad…

Comment on Another Short-Sighted News Organization Hands Part of Its Future to Facebook by Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:39:51 +0000

Looks to me like they’re letting people still log in using non-FB accounts. I’m going to check with them to see what happened.

Comment on Another Short-Sighted News Organization Hands Part of Its Future to Facebook by Andrea Bird

Andrea Bird — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:22:03 +0000

What was the outcome of this? Do they or don’t they require a facebook account?

Comment on New York Times’ Incoherent Honorifics by Marshall Jaffe

Marshall Jaffe — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:40:20 +0000

In the October 31, 1965, New York Times story about the suicide of Daniel Burros, a Klansman exposed by McCandlish Phillips as being Jewish, no honorifics are used to refer to to Klansmen who were with Burros when he killed himself. Though they were repellent, do you suppose they were intentionally given the same treatment as Hitler and Stalin?
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50E16F73454177A93C3A9178AD95F418685F9