[Air-L] Evolution of the Wikipedia page on the attacks in Mumbai
Frank Thomas
news.ftr at free.fr
Fri Nov 28 07:48:29 PST 2008
And the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel , usually quite positive about
digital media (the website is the no 1 on political news in Germany)
criticizes the quality of the citizen journalists and writes about
digital gawkers who produce commentary about events that they know about
from other bloggers, twitters - or the press. The author also shows the
extreme rapid reaction of twitters after the attacks in a nice diagram.
Another topic to think about : the need of having eye witnesses and
instant explanations in the press:
A Mumbay blogger writes:
I was on Larry King Live on CNN about three hours ago. They called me
and asked me to be on the show as an eyewitness, at which I protested
that I hadn’t actually seen anything, I was merely in the vicinity. But
they’d read what I wrote in this post earlier, and they wanted me to
talk about that. So I agreed, and came on briefly. King asked me if I’d
actually seen any terrorists—I felt guilty that I couldn’t offer him any
dope there.
http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/a-night-out-in-mumbai/
- ft
Larry Press wrote:
> The wikipedia page on the Mumbai attacks grew to nearly 5,000 words in
> 6 sections and was edited over 900 times in 21 hours, see:
>
> http://cis471.blogspot.com/2008/11/mumbai-terrorist-attack-21-hour.html
>
> Citizen journalists also used Twitter and Flickr:
>
> http://cis471.blogspot.com/2008/11/anyone-might-be-reporter-with-twitter.html
>
>
> Larry Press
>
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