The Word Trojan: Anatomy of an On-Line Story
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The Word Trojan virus is reported to have infected only two targets - but it received extensive coverage for a week. Given the limited facts to work with, journalists were left to deal mostly with "what ifs."
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Tracing how the story spread illuminates how little research is actually done by on-line journalists, and how much of what is reported is speculation and make-weight journalism. The vast majority of all stories are single-screen rehacks of the same two or three stories by those that did the real work. In this piece, I trace all 77 on-line stories from the time the story broke to when it died, to illustrate the state of on-line journalism today Full Story |
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