Alex Goldman of On the Media explains how the world of twitter followed the scanners of the police looking for these Boston Bombing suspects.
What was made clear was that over time and without proper context, certain tweets can be run amok of their original inception. He explains the recycling of tweets gathered from the police scanner as fact and then run back though the scanner as comfirmation. In other words, people broadcasted what police said on a scanner, police would then intercept these tweets and misinterpret them as fact. This sets a newer precedence as the police are grabbing at anything they can find, same as the reporters and average citizen tuning in. This precedence leads to misinformation and ultimately can lead to some embarrassing missteps in national and international reporting on the scene.
Its fast its live and its raw. No filters, no cover-ups, no gatekeepers. CNN and FOX continue to lose ground because of their issues with agenda setting and general time wasting filters and pundit discussions. For myself and Brandon (speculative but verified via blogger posts) we both enjoy getting our news without having to ask for information. Reddit finds the news we need, the posts are voted on to decide whats most relevant and then when we check our front pages, there it is waiting for us. Precise info that other stations and news media wouldnt mention due to vulgarity or a conflict with a personal agenda.
My news on Christopher Dorner's standoff was totally different than a good majority of viewers of CNN and FOX, thanks in part to scanners and Reddit. I had the manifesto, unfiltered explaining his reasons, his cause for his killings and deeply drawn out information that no other outlets would dare discuss. Instead of looking into the reasons of why he shot these people or pointing out the discrepancy in police reports and accidental "every truck is Christopher Dorner" shootouts. The media made it quickly and clearly conveyed to the public that this man was simply crazy. In the final standoff, you could hear through the scanners the plan to burn the house/cabin down section-by-section room by room. Scanner chatter about throwing the more flammable gas canisters into the house could be heard; "we need to burn this guy out", "cover the back doors he might try to run out when we torch the place", "burner 1 is out", "starting fire to room 2". Phrases similar to this can be heard live on the internet. There was to be no quarter for Dorner, no negotiations. The house burned down and we were supposed to throw out the whole theory of "maybe the LAPD and Cali. police arent as nice as we may believe".
So now we have scanners back for Boston, knowing from experience we tune-in. Not to the "fair and balanced" commentary of FOX, not to the "forward leaning" CNN and their many hologram Will.I.AM interviews about the bombers' alleged motives, we tune in to what is right out there from boots on the ground. Quick and concise information from the scanners (the same scanners that inspired the invention of Twitter in the first place). We intercept the reports, interpret, then tweet them to the mass public to see. The problem here was there was still an active manhunt at this point, police and swat didnt have suspect #2 surrounded in a cabin. The risk of tweeting misinformation for Dorner was minimal if the whole house was surrounded by police and tactical response units.The world was watching and waiting to see what would happen, speculation from the scanners were misread as fact and CNN published it the whole way though to be there first.
Is it authentic? Yes. At times when the police have control of the situation there's not much room for misinformation to travel, if I tweeted as Christopher Dorner saying "ha im actually in Nevada" police would throw it out since they had the cabin surrounded. In an active manhunt in this modern age, with police trying out every lead they can for the chance of finding the suspect, there certainly is a chance for trouble to come from the Zing of Authenticity.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
New media and PR
Wow those demos are so even, why bother even reading that infographic?
It seems that no matter how advanced and universal the social media may be, you still get the same levels of stupidity from one medium to the other.
There's an invisible barrier of "im better than you" set out in twitter and yet all the same complaints and cat-fights exist on twitter as they would on Facebook and the dwindling Myspace.
Its an absolute dereliction of social conduct and thats fine so long as you yourself dont fall into the traps set before you.
Facebook now is more of a political machine than a "look what I did", some complain about that, I enjoy it. Its good to see highschoolers and college students alike complain about watching arguments unfold on Facebook.
Sadly a majority of the arguments are mere marching orders from one side or the other. A well thought out picture with 59K likes and 3K comments. A fallacy-laden picture with a graphic like
"Lucy didnt brush her teeth and now she got gunned down in the streets by liberal dentists, THANKS OBAMA!"
Facebook holds that social commentary of people either feeding the trolls who post these pictures, or people whom see it and decide to log-out for good. Since facebook is largely powered by the users, there's not much that can stop a downward spiral in American/UK daily visits.
This is where twitter shines, you have a 1-1/1-99999 user system where anyone can move about anywhere with the proper feeds and keep perfect records of wins and losses in "internet fights". The visibility allows for these otherwise tagged "facebook trolls" to get assigned a strong status of "oh he does this to everybody and never admits when he's beaten, just look at his previous tweets"
Because of this permanent system, users who want to keep their followers are keen to tread-softly when stepping on those 50% landmines of the population's opinion.
This is why you'll be hard-pressed to find any celebrities or politicians taking any hard stances on most any issue; if they are to grab 51% but live in a republican/democratic area, they are better off not saying "Abortion sux =)"
or "Abortion is awesome =)"
As for the A.R.C? Meh, probably somebody logged in on a phone, took it home, then tweeted without logging out. Ive seen this done before with email accounts on public computers.
It seems that no matter how advanced and universal the social media may be, you still get the same levels of stupidity from one medium to the other.
There's an invisible barrier of "im better than you" set out in twitter and yet all the same complaints and cat-fights exist on twitter as they would on Facebook and the dwindling Myspace.
Its an absolute dereliction of social conduct and thats fine so long as you yourself dont fall into the traps set before you.
Facebook now is more of a political machine than a "look what I did", some complain about that, I enjoy it. Its good to see highschoolers and college students alike complain about watching arguments unfold on Facebook.
Sadly a majority of the arguments are mere marching orders from one side or the other. A well thought out picture with 59K likes and 3K comments. A fallacy-laden picture with a graphic like
"Lucy didnt brush her teeth and now she got gunned down in the streets by liberal dentists, THANKS OBAMA!"
Facebook holds that social commentary of people either feeding the trolls who post these pictures, or people whom see it and decide to log-out for good. Since facebook is largely powered by the users, there's not much that can stop a downward spiral in American/UK daily visits.
This is where twitter shines, you have a 1-1/1-99999 user system where anyone can move about anywhere with the proper feeds and keep perfect records of wins and losses in "internet fights". The visibility allows for these otherwise tagged "facebook trolls" to get assigned a strong status of "oh he does this to everybody and never admits when he's beaten, just look at his previous tweets"
Because of this permanent system, users who want to keep their followers are keen to tread-softly when stepping on those 50% landmines of the population's opinion.
This is why you'll be hard-pressed to find any celebrities or politicians taking any hard stances on most any issue; if they are to grab 51% but live in a republican/democratic area, they are better off not saying "Abortion sux =)"
or "Abortion is awesome =)"
As for the A.R.C? Meh, probably somebody logged in on a phone, took it home, then tweeted without logging out. Ive seen this done before with email accounts on public computers.
Money Can’t Buy You Love: Why Some Apps Work and Some Don’t (Blog)
Happy is utility for me, finding a use for my apps is awesome.
I dont drive my car to class for fun, but if it makes it to class whilst powering uphill through a 50 degree Laguna Seca-style corkscrew all whilst maintaining a 39MPG fuel econ' then it brings me happiness.
Going from home to class in 7mins with about 4 red light intersections and 5 stop signs is just brilliantly good work on Toyota's end. Brakes, turning radius, throttle control, disposable spark coil prices, ultra light frame future-death-trap. All these things come together to make what would be just driving to class an action packed and extremely low-cost adventure.
My iphone is a utility only when everything is working together, if I have to send a picture however, its no longer fun and I am no longer happy. To send a picture with a Verizon iphone, you either have to hot-glue your phone directly into your wireless router at home or go through miles of settings to turn on 3G. With my low-end data cap at 2GB per month, I have to go back through the labyrinth of settings on the iphone to turn it back off after the picture is sent. If I dont, then even when I'm in range of my 5 bar wifi router-my iphone will automatically start eating up the 3G data until I get a 4AM automated text from Verizon telling me that I used 75% of my data plan so far.
"Smart phone" they say....
Apps like my alarm clock app, YoctoClock, which (puts me to sleep/wakes me up with) music is useful for.....waking up, but even better is the progressive "non-heart stopping" wakeup to a 5hr playlist starting near dead silent 4hrs before you need to wake up. Yocto Clock gets me up and ready to go without the growning pain of the standard "ding" of the default iphone sounds.
Happy is the satisfaction of success,entertainment or comfort.
Utility is the expedited pathway to reach happy.
I dont drive my car to class for fun, but if it makes it to class whilst powering uphill through a 50 degree Laguna Seca-style corkscrew all whilst maintaining a 39MPG fuel econ' then it brings me happiness.
Going from home to class in 7mins with about 4 red light intersections and 5 stop signs is just brilliantly good work on Toyota's end. Brakes, turning radius, throttle control, disposable spark coil prices, ultra light frame future-death-trap. All these things come together to make what would be just driving to class an action packed and extremely low-cost adventure.
My iphone is a utility only when everything is working together, if I have to send a picture however, its no longer fun and I am no longer happy. To send a picture with a Verizon iphone, you either have to hot-glue your phone directly into your wireless router at home or go through miles of settings to turn on 3G. With my low-end data cap at 2GB per month, I have to go back through the labyrinth of settings on the iphone to turn it back off after the picture is sent. If I dont, then even when I'm in range of my 5 bar wifi router-my iphone will automatically start eating up the 3G data until I get a 4AM automated text from Verizon telling me that I used 75% of my data plan so far.
"Smart phone" they say....
Apps like my alarm clock app, YoctoClock, which (puts me to sleep/wakes me up with) music is useful for.....waking up, but even better is the progressive "non-heart stopping" wakeup to a 5hr playlist starting near dead silent 4hrs before you need to wake up. Yocto Clock gets me up and ready to go without the growning pain of the standard "ding" of the default iphone sounds.
Happy is the satisfaction of success,entertainment or comfort.
Utility is the expedited pathway to reach happy.
BOSTON MARATHON
I have to agree with Brandon, there were so many conflicting reports and
stories about what happened that to put trust in organizations like Fox
or CNN was just laughable.
Coverage on the Tea Party and Occupy Wallstreet were both so selectively covered that you never truly got the unfiltered story. The amount of coverage reddit provided after the bombing was simply stunning, you had instant access to real updates versus the CNN & Fox pundits speculating for a full 30 mins before throwing out another "exclusive" title behind what I read a full half hour before.
Couple this with the easy access to scanners online and you had a completely (hate to keep using this lexicon..) unfiltered story of what was happening.
This particular news story didnt garnish much controversy however, the story of Christopher Dorner had a much more 1:0 ratio of coverage.
CNN,FOX and even Reuters refused to address the very real allegations of police corruption in the LAPD both before the civilian shootings of (Insert any truck name/color) and after the scanners recorded "starting fire in room 1" during the final standoff.
CNN in this Boston Bombing instance was announcing "suspect 1 has been found" through John King and his exclusive source. Minutes later when the BPD announced something to the amount of "umm no we dont have anyone now", CNN made sure to slowly backslide on Live tv over the validity of their own source for the next 38 minutes or so, finally ending with "breaking news, it is comfirmed by BPD, they do not have suspect 1, this is why its good that we check our sources."
New York Post had similar issues, posting a headline and picture of two people with the title "bag men"
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1093643/thumbs/o-NEW-YORK-POST-570.jpg?6
Oh one thing, these arent the guys. Oh one more thing, New York Post is standing behind their terrible coverage.
Reddit was the fastest and best source for all the news you'd ever need with this story, in one of the links/posts I read what could be the greatest online comment in media history so far...
"Remember this moment people, remember where you were. We are witnessing the death of Televised News coverage right now."
I go to vice for my video features, Rolling Stones for my written stories and reddit for everything else. I just cant remember the last time any news outlet gave me a serious, unfiltered story.
Speaking of social media and agenda setting. When a bomb goes off in Boston killing 3, there's a city wide lockdown with swat, checkpoints and room-to-room, house-to-house inspections.
When there's a triple homicide by gun, theres two detectives and maybe an APB for suspect description in shift-breifing.
When its 12 police officers targeted and a manifesto plus two civilians dead, its a state-wide manhunt.
Im trying to think of the last time the media ever covered a gang related murder....St.Valentines Day Massacre? Oh well, I suppose if its not on video, or if its not the police, its not news.
Thanks CNN, for reminding me whats important. (Don Lemon's ok though, you can tell he's waiting for a real job somewhere)
Coverage on the Tea Party and Occupy Wallstreet were both so selectively covered that you never truly got the unfiltered story. The amount of coverage reddit provided after the bombing was simply stunning, you had instant access to real updates versus the CNN & Fox pundits speculating for a full 30 mins before throwing out another "exclusive" title behind what I read a full half hour before.
Couple this with the easy access to scanners online and you had a completely (hate to keep using this lexicon..) unfiltered story of what was happening.
This particular news story didnt garnish much controversy however, the story of Christopher Dorner had a much more 1:0 ratio of coverage.
CNN,FOX and even Reuters refused to address the very real allegations of police corruption in the LAPD both before the civilian shootings of (Insert any truck name/color) and after the scanners recorded "starting fire in room 1" during the final standoff.
CNN in this Boston Bombing instance was announcing "suspect 1 has been found" through John King and his exclusive source. Minutes later when the BPD announced something to the amount of "umm no we dont have anyone now", CNN made sure to slowly backslide on Live tv over the validity of their own source for the next 38 minutes or so, finally ending with "breaking news, it is comfirmed by BPD, they do not have suspect 1, this is why its good that we check our sources."
New York Post had similar issues, posting a headline and picture of two people with the title "bag men"
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1093643/thumbs/o-NEW-YORK-POST-570.jpg?6
Oh one thing, these arent the guys. Oh one more thing, New York Post is standing behind their terrible coverage.
Reddit was the fastest and best source for all the news you'd ever need with this story, in one of the links/posts I read what could be the greatest online comment in media history so far...
"Remember this moment people, remember where you were. We are witnessing the death of Televised News coverage right now."
I go to vice for my video features, Rolling Stones for my written stories and reddit for everything else. I just cant remember the last time any news outlet gave me a serious, unfiltered story.
Speaking of social media and agenda setting. When a bomb goes off in Boston killing 3, there's a city wide lockdown with swat, checkpoints and room-to-room, house-to-house inspections.
When there's a triple homicide by gun, theres two detectives and maybe an APB for suspect description in shift-breifing.
When its 12 police officers targeted and a manifesto plus two civilians dead, its a state-wide manhunt.
Im trying to think of the last time the media ever covered a gang related murder....St.Valentines Day Massacre? Oh well, I suppose if its not on video, or if its not the police, its not news.
Thanks CNN, for reminding me whats important. (Don Lemon's ok though, you can tell he's waiting for a real job somewhere)
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Netflix has more subscribers now than HBO
Lets be real here though, to get to HBO you need to wade and drudge through about 10,000 levels of cable/dish packages from the CNN-MTV-Comedy Central to the unholy CNN headline, FOX money,msnbc,MTV 2, MTV 89, etc...
Good read check it out!
http://qz.com/77067/netflix-now-bigger-than-hbo/
Good read check it out!
http://qz.com/77067/netflix-now-bigger-than-hbo/
Monday, April 1, 2013
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