Plus: “Partisanship turned out to be the strongest predictor of Americans’ knowledge, even surpassing education,” and how local news organizations fought Covid-19 misinformation in their communities.
“While enforcing their rules on the president may help prevent him from egging on his followers further, the rush to delete videos posted by those very followers may end up making them harder to hold accountable. “
“The audience is not loyal to Fox. It wants to get its fix of identity-confirming news. It will go where it can get it, and avoid where it can’t get it.”
While it’s too early to tell if Parler is here to stay, it has already achieved a reputation and level of engagement that has overtaken other alternative platforms.
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and other tech CEOs have been grilled by Congress on such issues. But Jeff Zucker and Rupert Murdoch haven’t explained how CNN and Fox News, which are both far more widely used for news, would deal with a contested election outcome.
Robert Hinck, Robert Utterback and Skye CooleyOctober 22, 2020
“To the extent that the mass media model we identify here is the primary driver of information disorder, it will not be cured by more fact checking on Facebook.”
Owen, Laura Hazard. "The Trump Covid news broke in the middle of the night. Here’s how news orgs handled it." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 2 Oct. 2020. Web. 4 Feb. 2023.
APA
Owen, L. (2020, Oct. 2). The Trump Covid news broke in the middle of the night. Here’s how news orgs handled it. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved February 4, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/the-trump-covid-news-broke-in-the-middle-of-the-night-heres-how-news-orgs-handled-it/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "The Trump Covid news broke in the middle of the night. Here’s how news orgs handled it." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified October 2, 2020. Accessed February 4, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/the-trump-covid-news-broke-in-the-middle-of-the-night-heres-how-news-orgs-handled-it/.
Wikipedia
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