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The Fairness Doctrine - Time to Bring it Back?

8/9/2019

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Once Upon a Time, News Was Fair

Its hard to define exactly what the word 'fair' means; to each person is has a slightly different meaning.  But in the old days if TV news, there was a more moderate approach, and less politicizing of the news.  We had trusted news anchors, like Walter Cronkite, to give us a summary - and a good starting point for our own discussions.

In the era  of the web, everything has changed.   Now, publication is too easy; almost every view, no matter how extreme, can have a large presence on the web, causing resharing and confusion.  To make matter worse, we are in the era of 'Big Data' - which means that a lot is know now about every person and group.  Appeals can be targeted to very small groups, even to one person to manipulate them by feeding information about their main issue, and draw them into a group.  People feel some kind of meaning in such a message, unaware they are being manipulated.  Guns are a good example - there is a huge disparity now between facts about gun violence versus what people believe.  

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Fairness Doctrine required newscasters to present news that was fair and balanced; but this was eliminated in 1987.  It seems that news is more deeply impacted by the internet and social media than anyone ever expected.  A Twitter feed with millions of followers has an unfair advantage.  We need new versions of the Fairness Doctrine, and the Equal Time Rule, too. 

Technology can help.  For example, if the sitting president uses social media - such as tweets, and has millions of followers, it would be fair to have a new kind of equal time rule that let the other party reply to all of those same users - and this is something that Twitter could build into the platform, if Congress made suitable changes to laws about how officials address the public.

There are many things that can be done.  Fact-checkers are a start, so people have resources to check truthfulness.  The large social media platforms are working on automated tools to reduce hate speech and to ensure more accuracy.  News source matters, too - if Russia is manipulating US voters via social media posts, we need to find ways to stop that.  But we can never have a comprehensive solution until the largest news agencies all try harder to avoid politicization, avoid being manipulated by candidates and officials, to be more accurate, and to use non-political verbiage.

We are working on some ideas of our own for how a news item evolves as it gets shared; there are ways to help preserve accuracy, and we will release more information on this soon.
 
Checkout our top nav bar there is a pull-down menu called "Fact Check' that has a lot of fact-checking resources.
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End of Our "Trump-Filter" Experiment

9/14/2018

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Results Were NOT as Expected!

We have been running an experiment here at LateBreakingNews.com, where we showed the late-breaking news feeds of all the major news media - but we filtered out almost every story that mentioned words like 'Trump', 'Potus', and a few similar.  We also blocked news reports that mentioned a few other highly-charged words like 'Hillary' and 'Breitbart'.

There was still a lot of news, and it looked more like the news used to look; more factual, more about a wide-range of events.

Our hypothesis was that Trump supporters would be less interested in our webiste, and Trump critics would be more interested; but what we found, was that everyone was less interested!

Apparently everyone wants to see news about Trump.  Love him or hate him, Conservative or Liberal, it seems that people just love news about Donalt Triump.  Its kind of like the irrestible urge to look at a car crash; no one wants someone else to crash but if it happens, we just cannot avoid looking.  This political rubber-neck has reached new heights in the Trump era, but has always existed.
 
Our site has been redone, it is all standard news sources.  We have put in a lot of links for media bias checking, and easy ways to get right to the late-breaking news feeds of all the major news media.  We would love to hear any feedback you have, please contact us with your comments and ideas!  Our site is to bring together all the major news media; and to find different ways of presenting the most recent, late-breaking news - so if you have ideas for improving that, we want to hear.

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New Twitter Real-Time News Service 

10/16/2013

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Twitter Experiment is called @EventParrot

Twitter has started a new, real-time late-breaking news service called @EventParrot.

@EventParrot uses direct messages (which are personalized messages direct to a user) to send late-breaking news alerts.  Twitter itself, overall, is a news service -  but there is a great volume of messages.  @EventParrot is a form of 'Curation' where only the most important news is sent out.

@EventParrot is part of a series of new kinds of 'notification' services by Twitter.  It would seem that we can expect more of these kind of services in the future.  Curation in general is an important way to add value, and will be increasingly important in any medium when there is a lot of volume.

These new kinds of notification services are a great way to draw new users to Twitter, and to prod the least-active users of Twitter to use it more often.

Any new news-notification service is of interest to us at LateBreakingNews.com  We will be following @EventParrot and similar services closely.  We are also very interested to see how the AP Newswire will respond in general to the speed of Twitter, and to curated services like @EventParrot in particular. 

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