Social Media Amplified Errors in Supreme Court Coverage, Say W&L Journalism Professors. Pamela Luecke Pamela Luecke knows all about journalists' need to be first with the news. For Luecke, head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Washington and Lee University, the misreporting on Thursday by both Fox News and CNN of the landmark Supreme Court decision on the health-care law was neither new nor unusual. What has changed, in her view, is the megaphone effect that caused those two reports to go farther, faster, on the wings of social media. "I can remember instances in my own career where we occasionally advanced something that we ought not to have advanced," said Luecke, former editor of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald. “But being wrong, whether you’re first or last, still erodes the credibility of any news organization. In this instance, Fox News and CNN both reported in the first minutes after the decision was made public that the court had struck down the individual mandate at the heart of the health-care law.
Brian Richardson. #SCOTUS, social media and the need for speed. Fox News was the first by a matter of seconds to tweet the wrong information: BREAKING: #SCOTUS rules individual health care mandate unconstitutional CNN was quick to follow, however: A number of other news organizations took their lead from these and passed the information along: Several politicians also took their cues from CNN and Fox News, and tweeted their reactions in tweets now deleted but preserved by the Sunlight Foundation through their Politwoops tool. Many news organizations simply passed on the CNN report, and were defended by members of the social media community, including Derek Thompson, Senior editor and business writer at The Atlantic: @AntDeRosa To be fair, NPR and Time simply said: CNN has reported this thing.
Other organizations, who had passed on the news without attribution, held their hands up instantly when the mistake was made clear: CNN, Fox News get health care ruling wrong We jumped the gun in following them. CNN made a huge mistake. Cookies must be enabled. You have cookies turned off To use this website, cookies must be enabled in your browser. To enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below. Facebook App: Open links in External Browser There is a specific issue with the Facebook in-app browser intermittently making requests to websites without cookies that had previously been set. This appears to be a defect in the browser which should be addressed soon. The simplest approach to avoid this problem is to continue to use the Facebook app but not use the in-app browser.
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The overwhelming case for plurality | Media. Less than a year ago, the country came within days, possibly hours, of allowing the largest and most dominant news company the UK has ever seen to in effect double in size. There was apparently nothing in law that enabled anyone to stop the News Corporation bid for the full ownership of BSkyB on grounds of plurality. At the eleventh hour, parliament, stirred by revulsion about the News of the World hacking the phones of a dead teenager, 7/7 victims, and the relatives of murdered children, eventually decided unanimously to call on News Corp to abandon the bid. The company did so. But the legal position remains the same today. The Leveson inquiry has, understandably, focused on how to regulate press content, complaints and standards. To state the obvious: plurality is not just about Murdoch, nor is it simply about size.
In the UK, there is currently more choice, but the economics of news are undergoing a fundamental revolution, so nothing should be taken for granted. CIA, MI6 Orchestrating massacres in Syria: Analysis. Two interviews I did: 1. According Syrian sources, Israeli airplanes are smuggling weapons into Iraq’s Kurdistan region, which are then smuggled into Syria with financial assistance from Qatar. Syria unrest ugly face of imperialism Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani has facilitated the operations of illegal Israeli firms in the region. The Syrian sources also revealed that Washington has trained 400 al-Qaeda militants in European countries. Meanwhile, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin has lashed out at Saudi Arabia and Qatar for funding and supplying weapons to armed Syrian opposition groups.
The unrest in Syria began in March 2011, with demonstrations being held both against and in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government. The following is a rush transcript of Press TV’s interview with Stephen Lendman, author and radio host, about the issue: Lendman: He is talking mainly about Washington. And Ban Ki-moon is the same thing. 2. Google to buy social media toolbar company Meebo - Internet. Meebo is to be acquired by Google in what is estimated to be a $100 million deal. Meebo is a company that helps online publishers and content creators connect their websites and content with social networks, therefore increasing engagement and revenue.
Also from the consumer side of things people can utilise Meebo to build a personalised stream of content related to their interests. Super jazzed No details of the deal, other than the news of the acquisition, have been announced. The official Meebo blog said “We are happy to announce that Meebo has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google! For more than seven years we’ve been helping publishers find deeper relationships with their users and to make their sites more social and engaging.
Together with Google, we’re super jazzed to roll up our sleeves and get cracking on even bigger and better ways to help users and website owners alike.” Bolstering Google+ Zombie Apocalypse, Bath Salts, Social Media and More | Muncie Free Press. Employers Can Ask For Social Media Passwords | WHIZ News. Employers Can Ask For Social Media Passwords If you're in the job market, you might want to check the settings on your social media profiles.
As the law stands now, employers in Ohio have the legal right to require applicants to turn over passwords to Facebook, Twitter and other websites. Democratic Senator Charleta Tavares of Columbus has introduced legislation that would ban employers from requesting that information. Bob Mercer of the Muskingum County Opportunity Center said it's a quick and easy way for employers to screen candidates. "From an employer's standpoint, they're getting a lot of information about that person who is going to be a team member and be working with them," said Mercer. Mercer said this method of obtaining personal information is part of a shift toward online applications and job interviews via webcam. "What we talk about is setting your privacy settings high enough to make sure that you limit your content to friends only," said Mercer.
Kiwis object to social media using facial recognition - Latest National News. Propaganda firm owner ran smear campaign against USA TODAY journalists. WASHINGTON – The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted Thursday that he was behind a series of websites used in an attempt to discredit two USA TODAY journalists who had reported on the contractor. The online "misinformation campaign," first reported last month, has raised questions about whether the Pentagon or its contractors had turned its propaganda operations against U.S. citizens. But Camille Chidiac, the minority owner of Leonie Industries and its former president, said he was responsible for the online activity and was operating independently of the company and the Pentagon.
"I take full responsibility for having some of the discussion forums opened and reproducing their previously published USA TODAY articles on them," he said in a statement released by his Atlanta attorney, Lin Wood. "I recognize and deeply regret that my actions have caused concerns for Leonie and the U.S. military. "Mr. Twitter: Changing the World 140 Characters at a Time. With its recent blackout in Pakistan, the micro blogging enigma known as Twitter has become a global social force with powers all its own. Not only does Twitter have the power to affect government bureaucracies, it has helped facilitate their destruction as seen in the Arab Spring.
Our politics, as well as our culture, are now going to function with Internet social media in mind. One could say that there is nothing new about “social” media today, and that all media forms throughout human history have performed social interactions in some way. Indeed that view is compelling, but with so many millions of users with such a wide range of content sharing, one cannot help but to wonder how Twitter factors into what sociologist Emile Durkheim called, “collective consciousness”. Twitter as of today functions as a new avenue for Internet users to pother and belabor over culture and current events; the totality of its social impact will prove to be intense.
Dave Heller. 6 things patients want from social media. On the second and last day of the Connecting Healthcare + Social Media Conference, produced by NYC Health Business Leaders, in New York this past week, Jessie Gruman, president of the Center of Advancing Health, took the stage to present an honest and point-blank keynote on what she, and a majority of patients, ultimately want to see from an organization's social media efforts. "I speak as someone who's been diagnosed four times with cancer," she said.
"I'm a frequent user of healthcare, and I draw on my experiences to inform my own work … many of us personally know healthcare is a delicate balance between the cognitive and emotional, the subjective with objective and individuals with populations. Websites are an ever-changing puzzle, and as we become more familiar with looking for health things online … social media makes this puzzle less puzzling for us. " Gruman outlines six things patients want from social media. 1. To find information quickly. 2. 3. Judges told to keep jurors off Facebook and Twitter. In the state’s first decision involving juries and social media, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has called on judges to better police jurors’ use of the Internet to make sure they do not discuss cases online, and thus risk a mistrial.
The court said judges need to do more to explain to jurors that refraining from conversations about a case also means not posting anything about it on Facebook or Twitter, common practice in today’s technology-driven world. “Jurors must separate and insulate their jury service from their digital lives,’’ the court said in a ruling involving a Plymouth Superior Court case in which several jurors made comments on Facebook during a trial. Those posts in turn elicited responding posts from friends. “Instructions not to talk or chat about the case should expressly extend to electronic communications and social media,’’ the court added in its little-noticed ruling two weeks ago. “It’s a growing issue. But jurors talked about the case on Facebook. Milton J. Former CIA analyst: U.S. media prevents justice in Mideast « Covert History. Longtime former CIA analyst Ray McGovern worked 27 years at the Central Intelligence Agency, providing daily reports to some the U.S.’ top leaders, serving as an analyst from the John F.
Kennedy administration through the George H.W. Bush administration. But now the 72-year-old has retired and spends his time doing a different kind of reporting, providing insight for websites like Consortiumnews.com while posting stories to www.RayMcGovern.com, many of them providing a new perspective on the Middle East. McGovern will serve as the keynote speaker for Saturday, May 20′s ‘Commemorating Nakba 64′ Palestine fundraising dinner presented by the Palestine Office of Michigan.
McGovern recently spoke about the state of the CIA past and present as well as foreign policy, Palestine and the Middle East: Q: What brings you to Dearborn and have you been here before? Q: What drove you to learn about Palestinians and what’s really going on in the Middle East? Read more: Arab American News. Mobile tools for protests -- then and now. Communicating from and about the Occupy Wall Street protests is primarily a social phenomenon.
Communicating from and about the Occupy Wall Street protests is a social phenomenonIn 2004, text messaging was the primary mobile tool Distributed text message broadcasts help ensure that the messages got delivered Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- As Occupy Wall Street demonstrations spread to cities across the U.S., protesters, bystanders and interested people almost everywhere are using mobile devices to share and follow events on the ground. How have mobile organizing tools evolved over the past few years, and where might they go from here? Media technologist Deanna Zandt (author of "Share This! "2004 was well before Facebook and Twitter.
That situation has completely flipped. Ever increasing circles: Where travel's social media revolution goes next. Being connected has never been as easy and accessible as it is today. As soon as the internet became ubiquitous, faster, and increasingly accessible, we were able to communicate with people from all over the world. And thus social media was born. Even the person with the most unusual hobbies was able to find, connect and share with others like themselves, even if they were on the other side of the world.
There is even a page on Facebook dedicated to napkins. With 750 million users on Facebook, 490 million on YouTube and 200 million on Twitter, there is no denying that social media has changed the way we communicate with each other, and the way brands communicate with their customers. Social media evolved from a handful of communities created solely for web browsers and PCs, to one of the most prolific communication mediums in the world, and it is still expanding at a rapid rate as the long-anticipated explosion of mobile devices – smartphones and tablets – is finally here. These are: Headlines October 3, 2011. Social Media and SEO. Does a social media presence help Google rankings? I read a great blog post recently explaining that as a business, and whether you like it or not, your website is NOT the same as your Internet presence.
To see the truth of this, just google any major brand and see what proportion of those links are to the company’s main website. Depending on the brand, their own site may not even make the top spot. But even if it does, below that will be a big cluster of other “stuff” which customers, and potential customers, will read – and all of which can potentially impact on the perception of that company. Some of that “stuff” will be the company being represented on websites that they can control – they can choose to claim their own presence there and add to it.
Google Places is one example of this. Others are less controllable – a hotel might have a strong representation on Trip Advisor for all the wrong reasons, for example. Can your customers find you online at all? Study: Online dating fraud hits 200,000 Brits - TODAY Tech. Social Media Spying News. Carl Freer Introduces Social Media Filmmakers' Tool at TheGrill. Knoxville area can now join Google+ - Knoxville Social Media. Lawyers in Murray trial using Facebook, Twitter to screen jurors. Social Media Replacing Traditional Advertising. Hacking Made Easier, Thanks To User-Friendly Tools. Facebook Spends to 'Friend' Small Businesses | AllBusiness Daily News from AllBusiness. Digital Dogs Earns Certification as Google AdWords Partner. Social media apps could be a mobile phone’s greatest assetGoMo News. Policy outlines social media rules for teachers. Increased calls for social media, BBM regulation.
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