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By: The changing nature of interactive creative (2009 Trends) « David j Carr | Digital fragments and Brand Reality Creative

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:55:31 +0000

[...] advertising) from [sic] the story (the context, the interconnected ecosystem of nodes that “bubble up” to a something much [...]

By: The Article is Dead; the Story is King | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:10:17 +0000

[...] (the advertising) from the story (the context, the interconnected ecosystem of nodes that “bubble up” to a something much bigger). For, as Matt [of Newsless.org] says, somewhat echoing a [...]

By: Anna Haynes

Anna Haynes — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:34:08 +0000

A tangent of sorts -
Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash forsaw people living in storage lockers (as well as the web).

Also from S.C., the expression “condensing fact from the vapor of nuance”, which is another approach to pattern recognition.

Maybe the 5 W’s needs a 6th – “What’s the larger story?”

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:48:36 +0000

So, here’s a thought. What kinds of news stories does a focus on events rather than patterns miss or distort?

1) McCain’s delayed debate / the financial crisis. Here both stories get significant play, although clearly the individual events, if overweighted, can turn the broader story into a discrete drama, the explanation of the crisis into an analysis of the horserace. History.

2) Families living in storage lockers. There isn’t a news “event” here until you have something that accidentally reveals it, like the fire. Cultural and environmental trends. (Global warming is in some ways so desparate for “events” to get people’s attention” that it claims hurricanes and the collapse of icebergs.)

3) The series of shootings. This seems to me to be different. It’s not a trend searching for an event, or an event that throws its gravity around a story. You could say that coverage of the event precludes coverage of the story. People living in storage lockers? Nobody’s covering that. But isolated homicides? We’ve covered that. It’s done. The news is over.