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4 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
“This is an extremely flammable situation and the president just threw a match into it,” said Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace [&] Ben Shapiro tweeted that it was “deeply irresponsible” for Trump to claim victory", as ABC, CBS, NBC anchors all refute claim
apnews.com/article/news-o…
Meanwhile in the UK... No context or qualification in Telegraph headline, just a straight quote from Trump.
Fox News website not much better TBH
Interestingly, the Fox News post on Facebook provides more context and does not repeat Trump's assertion ("Note: Fox News has not projected a winner of the 2020 presidential race.")
Fox provides same disclaimer on YouTube, and again, does not repeat Trump's assertion.

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Profile picture
5 Nov
Here are three values I think most journalists would like to base their work on

1) Seek truth and report it
2) Work with moral clarity
3) Serve the whole public

I wonder whether journalism faces inescapable trilemma that may require tradeoffs between different aspirations?

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Recognizing there are irreducibly plural values does not entail relativism, simply recognizing sometimes we have to make choices btw things that are valuable in different and sometimes incommensurable ways and can't always have everything. (Recognize this from your own life?) 2/9
It's attractive-even seductive-to imagine that different good things we might want can all be accomplished at the same time. But can they?

Looking at the US right now, find it hard to imagine how journalism can cover Trump with moral clarity while also reaching whole public.
3/9
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8 Oct
Valuing journalism in a world of near-infinite content - notes from my #ONA20 session

Pandemic powerfully demonstrates journalism’s value

But much of public does not see it that way

We have to confront realities of public perception to make progress reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/va… 1/8
News media have published important independent investigations into governments’ handling of the crisis and much more.

And more broadly, our research documents that those who follow the news simply know more about the pandemic. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/infodemic-how-… 2/8
However, in e.g. UK, our work suggests initial surge in news use quickly faded, news avoidance grew throughout the crisis, and more than a third think news coverage has made the coronavirus crisis worse. Only 7% think journalism has made things better reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/most-uk-say-ne… 3/8
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8 Oct
Warmly recommend @MarietjeSchaake calling for democracies to work together for rules-based international order on tech governance. Also note examples: UN, WTO, NATO - indication of what best-case long-term prospects are in terms of scope, legitimacy, pace? technologyreview.com/2020/09/29/100…
I'm glad she mentions these, because it is easy to call in abstract for "democracies to get together globally to do something about something"

When looking at actual examples of democracies, or democracies and others, getting together globally to do something, it is much messier
Also note: conspicious absence of large-scale "positive policy" - changes/additions to existing rules+regulations is sometimes oversight (policymakers not across issue, not gotten to it) or gridlock, other times what academics call "negative policy": deliberate non-intervention.
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21 Sep
We all live somewhere, not nowhere, and appealing to and contributing to that sense of place is one of the opportunities in an otherwise very challenging environment for local news.

A few notes and links from my talk at #infolocale @FILinfolocale

1/6
Competition for attention, ads, and $$$ is brutal, and I expect many local news media will continue to see revenues shrink, that some will close, and more consolidation (will latter help?).

But as @annisch has shown, many still care about local news digitalnewsreport.org/survey/2020/gl…

2/6
Interesting points from @annisch work include -

1) More people say they are interested in local news than politics
2) Interest in local news more equal across differences in e.g. education
3) Local news often trusted, also across political divides

digitalnewsreport.org/survey/2020/gl…
3/6
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14 Sep
Public service should also receive fees from FB+G, Labour says in Australia as political discussions around News Media Bargaining Code continue.

What this might mean for private news media? Below for some 2017 numbers from UK that may give indication 1/5
theguardian.com/media/2020/sep…
In 2017, @antoniskalog @dragz @nicnewman led on a passive-tracking study in the UK. Note, we were only able to collect desktop usage at the time, so limited dataset. See e.g. here digitalnewsreport.org/publications/2… and here for more details journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… 2/5
The descriptive numbers are interesting. The BBC alone accounted for 41% of all stories read, same as next five combined.

BBC dominated direct discovery in particular (49% of stories), more than next five combined.

What did it look like on Facebook and Google? 3/5
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11 Sep
This is a really good idea and I'll try to do this in 2020/21 for journalism/news/media research.

Plan -
1) short weekly tweet on something interesting I've read
2) mostly not colleagues/co-authors/people I'm close to
3) aim for variety

Will tweet, then add each to this thread
News consumption "at most 14.2% of Americans’ daily media diets", @_JenAllen et al finds, and identified "fake news" about 0.15%. Their results suggest misinformedness and polarization more likely to be due to "ordinary news or the avoidance" than fakery advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/14/e…
Meta-analysis by @jennifer_oser @DrBoulianne support "reinforcement effect, whereby those who are already politically active are motivated to use digital media"&suggest digital media "contribute to increased inequality in political participation over time" academic.oup.com/poq/article/84…
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