Journalists seem pretty good at recalling where they read a story and often who wrote it. But let’s be honest: does the average media consumer remember where he or she read, heard or listened to a story?
Perhaps a consumer might say they heard something on NPR or read something in The New Yorker because it says something about their personality, but more and more of my friends seem to barely recall where they saw information. “I saw on my [insert social network] feed” feels more common as people thumb through their phones throughout the day. In the journalistic race to be first, sometimes news outlets jump the gun and report the wrong information.
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