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Who Decides What News Is Important?

// January 22nd, 2009 // Comments // Journal

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Not long ago, CNN.com was the first site I’d visit every morning to get my fix of national and international news.  I then started migrating to Google News.   I figured that if one news source was good, then many news sources must be better.  Google aggregates stories from over 4,500 news organizations.

Now I never visit Google News. Or CNN. Or any traditional news organization.

Now I get most of my news from the people I follow on Twitter. Or friendfeed. Or from a ranking site like popurls. Or Alltop. Or Techmeme. Or Twitturly.

These sources aren’t investigating or reporting the news. But they are telling me what I should be paying attention to and where to get more details.

Are my new sources of news better or worse than my old ones? Should editors with journalism degrees tell me what the day’s headlines should be? Or is that decision better left to a much larger group of civilians?

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