Media firestorm over ‘Quran Burning’ fueled by Internet
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After much criticism aimed at the media, for giving a non-descript Pastor of a nothing Church in Gainesville, Florida more publicity than any crazy person deserves, media experts are saying they had no choice. It gives credibility to the excellent post by my colleague here at MMA, Krell titled Asymmetrical Systems and Social Networking published yesterday.
In today’s issue of The Christian Science Monitor it suggests the mainstream media had to respond the way it did, because it was all over the internet, Facebook and Twitter, not forgetting share sites like Jabberwonk and Modemac.
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But the pre-Internet days of a single news outlet guiding media coverage are gone, says Kevin Lerner of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y, who has studied the history of journalism. Journalism is in a new, democratized era of information-gathering, he says. If a single religious “crackpot” anywhere in the depths of America’s backwoods decides to burn a Koran, and even one person is there with a cellphone to upload the image, then it enters the larger flow of content that travels everywhere, he notes.
“This takes us back to the days before the mass media, when a village could talk its own news without the ‘mediation’ of a newspaper,” he says.
The difference in scale, however, places a new and evolving burden on journalism enterprises. “Their role is changing from one of strictly delivering the news to a waiting audience to one more of curation or helping to guide the discussion that is taking place across the vast digisphere,” Mr. Lerner says.
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30 followers???? That many?????
They could have ignored it and not spread the bullshit further than they did, giving this idiot the exposure. All the way up to PO answering questions about it. Come on, what will the next one want, dinner for two at the White House served by Rahm Emmanuel wearing a tuxedo. Sorry the media is just doing the whole, if it’s bleeding, it’s leading thing. Even people in different countries are being asked about this. Best answer for me so far, from a Muslim. “…the media was making a circus of “a church with 30 followers and an idiot.”
“They can go on burning the Quran,” he said, “It’s not going to destroy Islam.”
Now the idiot got his 15 minutes doubled and is doubling down on the stupid as we speak. I won’t burn this holy book if they meet with me as a group. What happened to we don’t negotiate with terrorists, because that is just what this assboil is, a domestic terrorist.
You have a way with words Jess, when are you going to join us?
🙂 It’s my use of the made up word isn’t it? I’m like Shakespeare, except I’m alive and a girl, I don’t write and well, ok I’m nothing like Shakespeare if you want to get all technical about it. If I knew how to change my avatar thingy, I would photoshop one of those little mugshot pictures and hangy thing around my neck, with a funny statement about writing. Really you guys humble me, but I like being the anon commenter for now.
With your insight, you humble us at times.