In journalism school, one of the first of the inexact sciences we learn is the prioritisation of news.
There's local, national, international, sports and entertainment news to juggle (with breaking news of Madonna's divorce of course changing everything).
I've spent a lot of time this past year hearing about how the future of the media is in local, highly personalised news. Reams have also been devoted (in media that nobody apparently cares about anymore) to lamenting the lack of international news in mainstream media.
#IranElection however very reassuringly shows that people still care very much about what happens in the rest of the world and it would be myopic of news organisations to assume otherwise.
CNN was asked to pull up its socks and Twitter rescheduled its down time rather than break the flow of information coming in from Iran.
Who says people don't care.
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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