
Noah Pransky
@noahpransky
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Chief of Public Affairs, NYC Office of Criminal Justice. Prev: @NBCNews, @NBCLX, @IRE_NICAR, #MLBmascot. Views my own.
New York, NY
Joined March 2009
Something I learned from 20yrs covering government:. One person’s “waste” is:.- another person’s lifeline;.- another person’s hometown infrastructure;.- another person’s pathway to college;.- another person’s road to a better life;.- another person’s future medical breakthrough.
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RT @noahpransky: ☎️Most of us learned in grade school how the game of “telephone” is arguably the single worst way to transmit information.….
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Roses are red;.Violets are blue. If social media's your top source of news,. an algorithm’s manipulating you.
2) In short, we have outsourced a large percentage of our critical thinking to algorithms. Every one of us. We are letting algorithms – that are not incentivized to inform, but to maximize profits through agitation – to be our gatekeepers for which news & facts we see.
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12) EXAMPLE: @ProPublica's decision to NOT publish a salacious story about Pete Hegseth. ….a story that would most def have collected allll the clicks:.
1/ Here’s a story about how journalism works. Spoiler Alert: This is how we decide *not* to publish. We were recently looking at Pete Hegesth’s different statements over the years about West Point, where he has said he was admitted. First stop: West Point.
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7) A recent survey found Americans' top news source is not news outlets, but "friends & family.". Yes, THE GAME OF TELEPHONE☎️. We know how unreliable this is!. Yet every wk, some family member shares some outlandish link they got from some unknown source.
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The Civic Health and Institutions Project
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