soupsoup: markcoatney: sbnation: Mike Wise Suspended One Month by WaPo for Tweeting Fake News Mike Wise learns a lesson while trying to teach us one about Twitter. Mike, let me let you in on a little secret. Twitter isn’t any more or less reliable for news than anything else. If you follow or listen to information from sources you can’t trust, no matter what the platform, you’re going to get burned. Reputation matters, regardless of platform. People put their trust in people based on reputation. The error old media people commonly make about new media: They confuse venue with source. Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr—these are venues for expression. The individual (or organization) that makes use of these venues are the sources of information, and that’s who you should or should not trust. Calling Twitter unreliable is like calling television unreliable. 

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Mike Wise Suspended One Month by WaPo for Tweeting Fake News

Mike Wise learns a lesson while trying to teach us one about Twitter.

Mike, let me let you in on a little secret. Twitter isn’t any more or less reliable for news than anything else. If you follow or listen to information from sources you can’t trust, no matter what the platform, you’re going to get burned.

Reputation matters, regardless of platform. People put their trust in people based on reputation.

The error old media people commonly make about new media: They confuse venue with source. Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr—these are venues for expression. The individual (or organization) that makes use of these venues are the sources of information, and that’s who you should or should not trust. Calling Twitter unreliable is like calling television unreliable. 

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  3. jefferino4 reblogged this from markcoatney and added:
    I wish Mike Wise hasn’t done this but this is very well put.
  4. evrymeevryu reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    Not the smartest move. ^
  5. amyvernon reblogged this from sbnation and added:
    a journalist, don’t tweet out “fake news” and then act surprised
  6. wallsconcesandgreenshutters reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    If most sources in a venue are unreliable, that means the venue is unreliable. A venue is its sources.
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    The error old media people commonly make...new media: They confuse venue with source....
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