This discussion will be facilitated by Bill, springboarding from a comment a few weeks ago:
“How has the 24/7 news cycle and constant pressure for delivering the fastest news affecting the quality of our news and how does that affect us?”
“This college student faked a quote on wiki to see how quickly it would spread and found many news sources quoted it without checking the unverified source.”
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090512/ap_on_hi_te/eu_ireland_wikipedia_hoaxer
Pat suggested some other lines of inquiry including,
“In terms of the topic for tomorrow night I had one major question. If the newspaper model is dead and bloggers and instant news is the current and future reality, where exactly do we think these new media get their information? Do blogs support research staff and investigators? Do instant news places have foreign bureaus? Do any of the new media conduct interviews with due diligence? I think that there will be a news blowback when the last newspaper goes under and these insta-news sources suddenly have no news to report on.”
And one of our Florida East Coast friends has suggested continuing this conversation again on a Saturday, because he’d like to join in. . . especially considering his background in journalistic field. So stay tuned for possible ThinkTank ancillary meetings!
Join us!
June 10: “The 24/7 News Cycle”
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
7:30pm – 10:30pm
Starbucks on SR 70 near I-75
7386 52nd Pl E
Bradenton, FL
