I hope to god that some of you actually check this blog out every now and then, especially in the run up to Thursday's exam. This morning a massive news story broke that is a brilliant example to illustrate issues around trust and authority when it comes to We Media.With reporting on events in Syria being hampered by banning of foreign journalists from the country, many news organisations have been relying on social media reports from within Syria. One such source was a blog, alleged to have been written by a Syrian-American lesbian living in Damascus (the capital of Syria). The traditional media even reported her capture by Syrian authorities last week.
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| A picture that alleged to be the author of the blog but turned out to be that of a London resident |
Then what happens? Turns out the blog is written by an American student studying in Edinburgh. He claims that while his identity may have been false, what he wrote was fact. This is reminiscient of when the Daily Mirror published false pictures of Western soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners and the then editor Piers Morgan defended their publication by claiming that while they didn't capture a true event it did represent what truly happens in Iraq.
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