Within minutes of Charlie Kirk being shot, millions of Americans began scrambling for information. But as the public struggled to make sense of the event, media organizations were flailing too. The Wall Street Journal misinterpreted engravings on the bullets, an anchor compared social media to a cult, and some old school journalists seemed to struggle with the basic concept of a Discord server.
“The fact that there is no one in traditional media whatsoever who has any inclination to what the modern landscape of the internet is and how to navigate it is baffling at best and downright dangerous at worst,” one X user posted, amassing over 10,000 likes.
Traditional news media’s struggle to understand the internet or grasp new technology isn’t a new phenomenon. Tim Miller, a political strategist and writer-at-large for The Bulwark, an anti-Trump new media brand on Substack, compared struggling media figures attempting to decode…
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