Boston Bombing: Getting Your News From Internet vs. Television or Print
- By : Cbh
- Category : Privacy, Social Media, Uncategorized
The recent bombing of the Boston Marathon lead to an unprecedented manhunt which shut down a city and drove a nation to watch the events unfold on live tv. But how “live” was it?
If you were to follow the news hashtags on twitter or listen to the police scanner via Ustream, the news came much faster. The difference is that truly “breaking” events, like any sudden tragedy, involve unexpected turns and, along the way, mis-steps and bad information. Your job, even as a (passive) reader or listener, is to use good judgment.
“The Boston Marathon and Faster Breaking News” was published in the June 2013 Palm Beach Bar Bulletin and covers the difference between following breaking news on 24 hour news channels versus finding “raw” feeds on YouTube, social media, and other streams of information.