A recent firing at The Associated Press is the latest example of the way in which our digital pasts are never far from the present, despite what early internet evangelists thought.
On Emily Wilder, and why no one believes the media
On Emily Wilder, and why no one believes the media
The Associated Press’s admission of fault after staffers fumed over the firing of a fledgling reporter for spewing anti-Israel propaganda on social media explains everything that is wrong with contemporary journalism.
(May 27, 2021 / JNS) What befell Emily Wilder could not have happened to earlier generations of journalists. Before the start of platforms like MySpace and Facebook in the early 2000s, no one was held accountable for the things that they said or wrote when they were in college or even high school. In the era before social media, the musings of students were not a matter of public record. And prior to the rise of the Internet, when anything can be “Googled,” accessing even published articles would have required in-depth research in libraries or scrolling through microfilm and microfiche archives to be brought into public view.
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