“Our house is on fire. These have been a bad few months for journalism. We are getting the big stories wrong over and over again…Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. In a world where everyone is a publisher no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today…Twitter, Facebook and Reedit is not journalism, that’s gossip…If you are first no one will ever remember, but if you are wrong, no one will ever forget.”
-Scott Pelley
CBS Evening News Anchor
“Most of the stuff on the information highway is road kill.”
– John Updike
Kansas City Star
“You cannot talk your way out of a crisis”
– Tom Olshanski
FEMA
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