I opened my Yahoo habitation page today as well as read the intelligence headline “Outgunned Kurds Beg USA for Weapons to Battle ISIS” as well as its Pb paragraph. “Interesting,” I thought, then I clicked on the item, expecting an expanded storey from a intelligence agency. What I got was the Huffington Post.
“OK, they are becoming a decent intelligence source,” I reacted. So I began reading, merely to realize they gave me 2 paragraphs earlier redirecting me to Newsmax for the entire story.
Newsmax is a intelligence site established amongst the aid of politically conservative political figures as well as journalists. That doesn’t foreclose them from reporting intelligence accurately, but tin influence their intelligence choice, analysis as well as opinion. Nevertheless, I read the 14-paragraph storey written past times Drew MacKenzie. It was a audio story. However, it only paraphrased a storey past times Washington Post reporter Terrance McCoy, “The strongest armed services left inwards Republic of Iraq has non stopped the Islamic State.” So I decided to read the original Post story.
When I got at that topographic point I discovered that McCoy relied alone on secondary sources: quotes from other journalists, a contestation past times President Obama as well as a quote the president attributed to an Iraqi parliamentarian, about previous Washington Post stories, online photographs, a New York Times interview, as well as an seek past times a unusual policy specialist.
4 intelligence organizations. iv stories. No master sources. And no fact checking, I suspect.
Setting aside the problems this illustrates virtually journalism practices today, this instance of intelligence linking underscores why intelligence organizations are having problem getting people to pay for news. As this instance shows, they are doing nix new, adding nix or little, as well as essentially copying each other as well as themselves. This gives readers nix they cannot larn elsewhere, then how tin they await people to run into it every bit valuable.
This value creation deficit is particularly a challenge if intelligence organizations desire readers to pay for journalism, but it is increasingly a problem even in asking them to pass fourth dimension reading gratis content.
This sort of inexpensive intelligence of dubious value will cause the drib dead of many intelligence providers inwards the coming years. If intelligence organizations don't alter their behavior, it volition hold upwards drib dead at their ain hands.
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