Mastodawn

Dan Gillmor Jul 6, 2023

It gets more absurd every day for Big Journalism to keep pouring its work into Saudi-government-funded Twitter, which is controlled by a right-winger who hates real journalism and boosts extremists.

It gets even more absurd for journalism orgs to keep embedding tweets in their stories, given Musk's unfathomable destruction of the platform's usefulness.

I keep wondering when journalists will discover that big tech is not their daddy.

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JohnW Jul 6, 2023

@dangillmor

One of the coolest things about the Fediverse is that both big tech and big journalism can only remain on equal footing as local journalism and tech initiatives. Just because they're "name brand this and that" doesn't propel them to the top.

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Theriac

@the_Effekt @dangillmor

when Prigozhin decieded to head to Moscow I found a lot of posters on the #fediverse making cogent and insightful commentary on his motives at a time where nobody knew anything. When commentary started showing up 3-4 days later from media outlets, there was very little to no extra information added. I'm not suggesting they were copying, just that on getting info about fast changing events you cannot beat something like the #fediverse for speed of reaction.

Where the media does have an edge is when it does fact checking and impartial contextualising of events in a historical context.