Rest of World challenges expectations about whose experiences with technology matter. We connect the dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated.

After inflating the myth of Elon Musk, the media has a responsibility to break their dependence on him and tear him down. That doesn’t necessary mean going on the offensive, but simply giving more attention to the many ways Musk feels he’s beyond accountability and above the law. It means digging into his right-wing ideology and the false promises they once praised him for making. But even more, it means never falling for another tech grifter trying to do the same thing and applying that scrutiny to every startup founder and public company CEO in the tech industry. They owe the public nothing less.

TV news and national newspapers should be at the top of the attention economy because they have the highest production value, ostensibly the most resources, and theoretically the widest reach. And if that were all true, these outlets should have no problem competing with, say, random teenagers on TikTok using a text-to-speech function and random photos they found on Twitter to incorrectly explain what vinyl chloride does when you burn it. But news outlets can’t churn out content that fast because even the most well-funded state-of-the-art newsrooms in the world — which none of these are anymore thanks to absolutely gutted advertising markets — can still only operate as fast as it takes human beings and institutions to respond (if they actually want to report out a complete story). And, so, a whole lot of people, especially young people who weren’t around for the chaotic move 15 years ago from a television-led media environment to a deeply flawed digital one — find it very easy to assume there’s some kind of large-scale conspiracy to not cover the literal mushroom cloud of toxic gas hovering over the midwest right now. Because what else could explain why CNN isn’t faster, better, and more interesting than TikTok?

"We’ve been conducting work on public misperceptions for several years now. From military facts to personal finances we have a wealth of fascinating data which you can explore here."

Thus, a cycle is born, in which part of the media’s new role is to gather and verify information that now originates outside of traditional channels: information is synthesized and produced by the hive mind; the media contextualizes and verifies it; the hive mind then digests and synthesizes that new, verified information, producing even more new information based on that; and this repeats, endlessly. Eventually, a highly refined product emerges. But the process is messy, and now more visible than ever. Unfortunately, as we saw last night, it can sometimes lead to terrible things. But there is no going back.

Car le bon journaliste web est celui qui sait repérer un bon buzz qui monte. C’est celui qui mettra moins de temps que les autres à publier un papier de 500 signes, en insérant trois tweets et une capture plus vite que ses confrères. Quatre heures plus tard, tout le monde a fait le même papier avec les mêmes tweets

If you have a serious new claim to make, it should go through scientific publication and peer review before you present it to the media

Do note the More ‘news’ below button at the bottom. Says it all, really.

"What it does tell us, however, is how desperate some pockets of our national press have become to vilify video games in an age when public understanding and appreciation of the medium is at an all-time high. "

Schiesel did too, when he wrote in Sunday's edition of The New York Times that The Beatles: Rock Band "may be the most important video game yet made." There's no problem with a critic taking an extreme stance. A bold statement, though, requires an inspired argument to back it up. The analysis brought to bear by Schiesel is flawed to the point of being harmful to game criticism.

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"And as we've found, there's a big difference between reality and wii-ality" ORLY ??????

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"It’s nobody’s responsibility to finish what amounts to video game homework. We game for fun, for adventure, for revelation. We don’t game to sit through a re-skinned version of a Barnes and Noble discount books puzzle."

"There is a large element of choice here, but regardless of your input, the output is always the same/That new summon isn’t appealing because it’s powerful, but because it’s new, so you can see that totally sweet cutscene that plays when you use it"