{"id":1898,"date":"2011-12-25T08:09:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T15:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2011-12-25T08:09:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T15:09:05","slug":"what-do-we-do-when-the-internet-mob-is-wrong-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/12\/25\/what-do-we-do-when-the-internet-mob-is-wrong-slashdot\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? &#8211; Slashdot"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/11\/12\/24\/1533222\/what-do-we-do-when-the-internet-mob-is-wrong?utm_source=headlines&amp;utm_medium=email\">What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? &#8211; Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Something to think about:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;By now most people have heard the news and seen the picture of the boy who was killed over the new Nike sneakers. There are Facebook pages devoted to fist-shaking protests about materialism and greed. Yada yada yada. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/crime\/blog\/bal-killed-over-concords-the-internet-murder-of-tyreek-amir-jacobs-20111223,0,7785121.story\">while the scuffles over the shoes were real, the death was not<\/a>. The photo was just a stock photo of some kid in a lab. We know this because of some old school reporters \u2014 Steve Earley and Justin Fentin of the Baltimore Sun. In the rush to celebrate crowdsourcing, many of us pooh-pooh the old media as &#8216;gatekeepers,&#8217; but there are times when keeping that gate locked is a good idea. After all, if one of the crowd discovered the error, the signal would barely rise above the noise. There are people claiming that anyone questioning the facts is being disrespectful. Is there something we can do about the mobocracy? How can we support the best traditions of journalism while fixing the worst? How can we nurture accuracy?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1898'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1898);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1898);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1898);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? &#8211; Slashdot. Something to think about: &#8220;By now most people have heard the news and seen the picture of the boy who was killed over the new Nike sneakers. There &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/12\/25\/what-do-we-do-when-the-internet-mob-is-wrong-slashdot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[103,53],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-society","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-uC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1533,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/12\/26\/progress-in-algorithms-beats-moore%e2%80%99s-law\/","url_meta":{"origin":1898,"position":0},"title":"Progress in Algorithms Beats Moore\u2019s Law???","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This was mentioned on slashdot... 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