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By: Mediactive » Arizona shootings: Take a slow-news approach

Mediactive » Arizona shootings: Take a slow-news approach — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:10:09 +0000

[...] Ethan Zuckerman, a friend and colleague at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has some ideas: [...]

By: Swearing off the rhetoric of violence – Salon | SabDesi - entertainment and news portal

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:07:05 +0000

[...] a friend and colleague at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has some ideas:The media make us do it. [As noted below, I give a lot of credence to this one.]We’re [...]

By: Swearing off the rhetoric of violence | Americas Society

Swearing off the rhetoric of violence | Americas Society — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:11:22 +0000

[...] Ethan Zuckerman, a friend and colleague at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has some ideas: [...]

By: Assorted Links - Monevnomics

Assorted Links - Monevnomics — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:17:32 +0000

[...] 2. A few insights about fast news junkies [...]

By: Etl World News | Assorted links

Etl World News | Assorted links — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:01:19 +0000

[...] 5. Via Kat, why we fall for "fast news." [...]

By: Sam Clements

Sam Clements — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:40:05 +0000

This is a fascinating topic, and it’s striking that there are only 10 replies so far.

I believe that “fast news” predates even television, being a leftover from the days when newspapers competed for a “scoop”, where being the first on the street with the story meant lots of sales. Of course, TV perverted this, by not being real-time, but planting teasers like “Nuclear attack due any minute. Details at 11″ Of course, in the internet age, teasers are hard proof of idiocy, since you can just look up the tease on the internet if you haven’t already done so.

This will all change: news, advertising, TV, education and jobs. Thank goodness for slow-thinking business people stuck in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They’re making my job easier.

Stay Tuned.

Sam

By: Alex Golubev

Alex Golubev — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:41:44 +0000

There is no news. What we call news can be broken down into statistics, entertainment, and developments. There is no business model to follow developments as good as one to follow statistics and entertainment. There has never been a widely followed and successful system to do such a thing. It take special people on both sides to figure it out and make the effort to filter through the noise.

By: Stephan Beyer (stephanbeyer) 's status on Tuesday, 10-Nov-09 20:28:09 UTC - Identi.ca

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:28:12 +0000

[...] @adrianlang: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/11/09/why-we-fall-for-fast-news/ Toward a Slow News Movement! (via [...]

By: Adrian Lang (adrianlang) 's status on Tuesday, 10-Nov-09 20:01:40 UTC - Identi.ca

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:01:44 +0000

[...] http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/11/09/why-we-fall-for-fast-news/ Toward a Slow News Movement! Eat that, microbloggers! (via @EthanZ) a few seconds ago from web [...]

By: johne

johne — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:56:55 +0000

Tina Brown, the former magazine and current blog editor (of the current, real-life inwebification of Waugh’s “Daily Beast”), commented on National Public Radio this morning about the difficulty of doing narrative journalism — another name for slow news — on the web. She suggests it is a challenge we’re groping with, and can be expected to overcome. In a throw-away at the end of the segment, breaking the narrative into bite (or cell-phone-screen) -size pieces was thrown out as an example of the possibilities.