Kim
@kimlisagor.bsky.social
Media innovation prof @CalPolySLO, digital adviser @cpmustangnews. Long ago: @outsidemagazine @latimes.bsky.social. Longer ago: @dailybruin
How would that relationship change if we normalized the practice of reading back quotes for accuracy and context before we publish? (That has long been the norm in magazines, but not in daily news.)
November 23, 2024 at 4:37 PM
How would that relationship change if we normalized the practice of reading back quotes for accuracy and context before we publish? (That has long been the norm in magazines, but not in daily news.)
We could afford to be cavalier when our occasional misquotes disappeared from public view as soon as the day's paper was tossed in the bin. Now those errors live online forever, and our sources are afraid.
November 23, 2024 at 4:37 PM
We could afford to be cavalier when our occasional misquotes disappeared from public view as soon as the day's paper was tossed in the bin. Now those errors live online forever, and our sources are afraid.
I ask because I've watched sources become more and more comfortable with "no comment" as a default. We need to rebuild our trust relationships and realize that the stakes for sources are different now than when that rule was established.
November 23, 2024 at 4:37 PM
I ask because I've watched sources become more and more comfortable with "no comment" as a default. We need to rebuild our trust relationships and realize that the stakes for sources are different now than when that rule was established.