By: Uwe Lucas

Uwe Lucas — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:07:07 +0000

Turns out that what we’d expect to be the alert system on top of a news pyramid that is neatly prioritized and filtered along the lines of CNN’s journalistic values and global scope is in fact a dripple of quite arbitrarily picked news with a strong bias for US domestic crime and death.
Well, that brings up 2 questions for me. The first, Why?, is less important. One scenario is that the rise of the number of followers into the millions has just not been noticed yet by senior mgmt; another, less likely, scenario that is that the selection of news tweetworthy is based on an analysis of retweets and clicked links. The latter is less likely because in that case, CNN would sure use this channel more.
Question 2 is: how much of a problem is this? If a channel doesn’t fulfil the role we all expect it to play in our information ecology, is that just a misunderstanding, a mistake, or social sabotage (like the “News of the World”, the “Sun” or the “Bild-Zeitung”)? I’m personally somewhere between the second and third, but I’d like to hear other points of view.

By: davidw

davidw — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:51:22 +0000

Thanks. I fixed it.

By: Preston Austin

Preston Austin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:45:46 +0000

Hi, typo: You have link display text as “ccnbrk” not “cnnbrk” first sentence above. Link is correct however.

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