{"id":101323,"date":"2017-03-24T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T16:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=101323"},"modified":"2017-03-24T16:06:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T16:06:49","slug":"channel-4-slip-up-shows-pressures-of-instant-news-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/channel-4-slip-up-shows-pressures-of-instant-news-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4 slip-up shows pressures of instant news culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The decision by Channel 4\u2019s home affairs correspondent Simon Israel to break the unverified news that Trevor Brooks, aka Abu Izzadeen, was the prime suspect in Wednesday\u2019s terror attack, has raised questions over pressure on journalists to respond to fast moving live events. \u00a0In an already highly pressured environment, this is exasperated by the fast pace of information sharing on the internet. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s claims, which came from a single unnamed source, were quickly brought into dispute after Izzadeen\u2019s brother rang Channel 4 during the programme to inform them that he was in fact serving time in prison. Israel\u2019s haste to break the story led to further complications later on in programming, when the 4+1 rerun of the news had to be pulled off air in order to dispel any confusion and limit the spread of misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>It also had wider implications relating to the ease with which misinformation can quickly spread. The BBC\u2019s Andrew Neil tweeted Israel\u2019s claims, which were then retweeted by his followers before the mistake was realised. In the current media climate where fake news is at the forefront of the agenda, both Israel and Neil have perfectly illustrated the ease with which information is shared and builds traction across the web.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional media outlets no longer break the news as they used too, and often struggle to keep pace with the spread of information on social media where news becomes old in a matter of minutes. As such, an exclusive on the identity of Wednesday\u2019s prime suspect may be hard to resist \u2013 the problem here is that if it\u2019s wrong, it\u2019s already too late to retract without having made headway online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision by Channel 4\u2019s home affairs correspondent Simon Israel to break the unverified news that Trevor Brooks, aka Abu Izzadeen, was the prime suspect in Wednesday\u2019s terror attack, has raised questions over pressure on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":101327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3729,7271,1449],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101353,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101323\/revisions\/101353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}