Facebook journalism
Aug. 23rd, 2010 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosen(link via kutsuwamushi)
There's this thing the media does lately that irritates me: when somebody under about 25 dies, rather than do the hard work of going out and finding out some info about them, they just go to their Facebook page and regurgitate whatever content they find there.
As a result of this approach, and not checking names carefully enough, the wrong Neda Soltani has been turned into a martyr for the recent Iranian protest movement, and forced to flee the country.
kutsuwamushi)There's this thing the media does lately that irritates me: when somebody under about 25 dies, rather than do the hard work of going out and finding out some info about them, they just go to their Facebook page and regurgitate whatever content they find there.
As a result of this approach, and not checking names carefully enough, the wrong Neda Soltani has been turned into a martyr for the recent Iranian protest movement, and forced to flee the country.
