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The big fear I have is that the larger the distribution of any media outlet in the current system the harder it is to hold it accountable, as it just becomes abstracted from any single community and losses connection/checks with the humanity of its audience. Which is to say:...Permalink On twitter.com
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What if Fox is an inevitable end point of media at scale? As it becomes disconnected from the community that might object and check bad decisions media orgs could become immune to the consequences of bad editorial decision-making.On twitter.com
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News orgs w/strong ties to a local section: community, advertiser-base and subscriber-base, are holding a gift that provides feedback to prevent a runaway editorial problem, but the ones with weak, or no, local connections? What stops them from becoming extremist in some way?Permalink On twitter.com
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People tend to express this term by talking about hate clicks as a 'success', but I don't think that's the case. I think the problem isn't about writing for hate, it's about writing in a vacuum where size immunizes bylines from negative repercussions.Permalink On twitter.com
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This is the Facebook effect: at a certain size the diffusion of your audience makes it impossible for any subset of that audience to be loud enough to impact decision-making.Permalink On twitter.com
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The opposite of that is the local paper, where a subset of the community physically *showing up* to object can (but not always) have an outsized influence.Permalink On twitter.com
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Perhaps this concern will prove overheated, but just what I'm thinking about in the light of this particular evening.Permalink On twitter.com
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