“It is just over,” journalist @caseynewton told The Post.
“If you wouldn’t join Gab, or Parler, or Truth Social, there’s no reason you should be on X. I think it’s time for journalists and publishers, in particular, to acknowledge the new reality and to get the heck off that website.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/19/antisemiticism-interent-elon-musk-israwl-war/
@taylorlorenz this is foolish.
If journalists can report on the platform and find readers there then they should. That's their job.
This take is like a doctor refusing to serve an accident site because he doesn't like the type of people who frequent that venue.
No, X is a place where journalists can effectively publish their work. If they are avoiding the platform purely because they don't like the way it looks then they are not doing their jobs, they are letting bias override their work.
@volkris @taylorlorenz @caseynewton this analogy makes sense because people would not read the news if reporters were not on twitter
@waitworry what analogy?@taylorlorenz @caseynewton
@volkris @taylorlorenz @caseynewton "This take is like a doctor refusing to serve an accident site because he doesn’t like the type of people who frequent that venue."
@volkris @taylorlorenz @caseynewton anyway to cut straight to the point it's not actually a reporters job to track down people to read their stories so your take makes absolutely no sense
@waitworry A reporter who picks and chooses publishing media based on personal grudges instead of effectiveness of disseminating information is doing a disservice.
@volkris @taylorlorenz @caseynewton counterpoint: no you're just making up weird new jobs for reporters
if anything posting on a platform where the audience is predisposed towards to not wanting to hear you or your opinion is an even greater waste of their limited time
@waitworry so you're basically arguing that we should only preach to our own choirs, only stay in our own echo chambers.
No I would say that it's exactly the audience predisposed toward not wanting to hear the truth that needs to be courted the most heavily.
Folks who already know what's going on in current events aren't the ones who most need to hear good reporting. It's the people who are disconnected and falling for false narratives that we really need to throw good reporting at.
