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I think at some point, either now or in the near future, the international media as a whole should step back and do a postmortem of what happened over the last 36 hours.
There are absolutely deep lessons that should be taken from this.
There are absolutely deep lessons that should be taken from this.
Organizations should probably take a dive into what happened inside of their newsrooms for the first 12 hours, and really understand the points where things broke down.
Because no matter what actually happened on the ground, the media response was poor.
Because no matter what actually happened on the ground, the media response was poor.
Absent of governmental statements, what facts emerged in the first few hours? What could be independently confirmed? What source material was making it out into published work? What did we actually know?
Social media has its own unique massive issues, but larger orgs with broader reach are supposed to have institutional guardrails. Something about the fourth estate.
There were absolutely immense consequences to both the explosion and subsequent reporting.
There were absolutely immense consequences to both the explosion and subsequent reporting.
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