{"id":1213,"date":"2009-05-16T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2012-03-31T20:46:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T00:46:15","slug":"automagic-content-aggregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/automagic-content-aggregation\/","title":{"rendered":"Automagic content aggregation"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Huffington Post, Washington Times Runs Obama Girls’ Photo With Story About Murdered Chicago Kids<\/a><\/p>\n

Editor John Solomon told Greg Sargent technology, not a person, was to blame<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The theme engine, through automation, grabbed a photo it thought was relevant, and attached it to the story,” Solomon said, acknowledging that the photo had gone up without a person seeing it. “There was no editorial decision to run it. As soon as it was brought to our attention, we pulled it down.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“There was no editorial decision to run it”?? <\/p>\n

Who decided to acquire\/build a search algorithm to publish file photos without human oversight? <\/p>\n

The example is outrageous but using loose tags to associate photos of people to stories of crime and human tragedy? Under what circumstances does this technical solution make journalistic sense?<\/p>\n

Technology to blame? Not even the technologists. Doesn’t this newspaper have an editorial board?<\/p>\n

How about applying the same standard of care to your online property that you’d use for print?<\/p>\n

Mistakes happen but blaming your tools just betrays how unequipped you are to use them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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