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The faster the news, the more virally it can spread.

Absolutely everyone wins, right?

PRECISELY HOW OUR NEWS IS CHANGING

New media platforms are accelerating the delivery of news at an unprecedented rate. In an "I gotta obtain it and I need it now" age, media organizations today might publish news to its audience in not just minutes, but seconds.

Subscribers to various news wire services can turn 1000 words of wire copy into a compact 250 word report and post it very quickly. To do this, media doesn't have to generate a phone call, perform a background check or simply make sure the account was properly vetted.

Updates and also "teases" to coverage with Twitter and Facebook can be posted in seconds and can be very powerful statements framing the context with the story a reader and watcher is following.

Lastly, many media organizations now allow viewers to send in pictures and video of stories they will often come across. This type of mobile technology has opened the door to stories none people may have ever been aware of.

The speed of news today is convenient and powerful, just about all has drawbacks.

THE PROBLEM

Since news delivery changes, ever more reporters are relying on other news and cops reports to quickly "source" the details they publish to get it out. The ethical process of reporting a story is already tarnished by this period. Here's why:

PRIMARY : Police and Government generally aren't subject to libel or defamation measures. Police reports carry a lot of power in media and in certain organizations, at least initially, are not questioned.

NEXT : Media can take a police report and site it as "fact" without legally needing to contact the subject of the story to win back their side. As long as being the information published comes from your police report and is properly attributed, media will likely be protected from libel and defamation.

MASS MEDIA ON MEDIA : When one media organization web sites another media organization's information, they most likely hardly ever took time to look into the story or the particular element on its own (the reason they will site/attribute another entity or even one they aren't joined with).

THE RUB : Media organizations usually have legal departments or attorney's on-call year-round ready to protect the company from lawsuits. Some media even carry insurance that covers them in the instance of a lawsuit. Even if an irresponsible media organization loses a libel or defamation case the chances are almost 100% the ruling may be reversed on appeal. The majority of case-law from Appellate Courts on the Supreme Court overturns cases on such basis as free speech under The first Amendment.

CONSEQUENCE : For people on the receiving end of fake allegations published by media influenced by a police report, it is almost impossible to get vindication as a result of how expensive and substantial a libel or defamation lawsuit can be. Further, it is very hard for the "little people" to ever get equal media coverage when they are found not guilty, charges are reduced and dropped altogether. tech newsThere are many models of tablets being sold in the market, and the Apple iPad is among the most most popular among these.