Hurricane Sandy: how does the media serve the public interest?
This tweet from Daniel Bentley deserves a post all on its own:
Instagram should have disabled all filters yesterday. Would have done journalism a great service.
— Daniel Bentley (@DJBentley) October 30, 2012
While some news organisations take down paywalls and others help sort hoax images from the genuine article, what role should ‘common carriers’ like Instagram play? Any at all?
In my post on media and the storm, I highlighted Time Magazine’s Instagram feed as a positive tool. Though I do agree filters are absolutely misleading, using a mobile app to tell visual stories across the region is powerful. http://thejojoupdate.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/the-best-new-media-coverage-of-hurricane-sandy/