My wife is so addicted to Facebook that I always ask her what is happening in the world after she checks Facebook. She actually does find out stuff on Facebook about the world which I have also learned from more reputable sources. Last night when we were watching the local news, they had a story on the Mountain High Ski Resort where the newscaster said that the Mountain High Facebook page said that people started lining up at 6 a.m. That struck me as odd to use Facebook as a source for a news story. I would have expected them to at least call Mountain High and either get a quote or verify the information, but relying on a post on a Facebook page seems like poor journalism.
Maybe this is what journalism is in the future; get facts from potentially unreliable sources, don’t verify them, and then report them. Then the game of telephone starts where the unverified facts get distorted on and on. I think I’m living in the past where I trusted journalists.