the darkest journalism: where’s the truth?
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Dark Journalism
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What the fuck is journalism in 2016?
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”
Marshall McLuhan
1994
More people on earth have access to cell phones than toilets.
Out of the world's estimated 7 billion people, 6 billion have access to mobile phones.
Source: United Nations, 2015
Professionals
ParticipantsPro-ams
Professionals
Professionals
$350K = $5K
Pro-ams
Bystanders / Participants
6 BillionJournalists
https://twitter.com/reallyvirtual/status/64780730286358528?lang=en
https://twitter.com/keithurbahn/status/64877790624886784
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sid-miller-twitter_us_58190a51e4b07c97c1c50fb6
1. 2. “Thirdly and perhaps most significantly, we now live in a post-factual democracy. When the facts met the myths they were as useless as bullets bouncing off the bodies of aliens in a HG Wells novel. When Michael Gove said, 'The British people are sick of experts,' he was right. But can anybody tell me the last time a prevailing culture of anti-intellectualism has led to anything other than bigotry?"
4.3.
“Roughly one in four debate tweets was from a bot. And pro-Trump activity has only intensified as the election campaign has gone on. By the third debate, bots posting pro-Trump tweets outnumbered pro-Clinton bot tweets 7 to 1.”
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/political-twitter-bots-will-rage-election-day/
“Donald Trump understands social media and reality television better than anyone else…The villain becomes the star in social media.”
Van Jones
232 media executives control
the information diet of 277m Americans.
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
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ParticipantsPro-ams
CONTROL
UNPREDICT-ABILITY
CHAOS
CONTROL
UNPREDICT-ABILITY
CHAOS
A master of doubt
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Controlled & Divided Paranoid
Social Non-linear Confusing
“Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.”
Spider Jerusalem
Unfortunately, power has shifted from journalists…
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