Something I wonder about with the recent Sturm und Drang around the Cambridges is how much of a role that Twitter is playing.
All the royal correspondents are on Twitter, and if you follow the dialogs that they're having with people, *most* of the people who engage with them are highly critical of the Cambridges. There are a few exceptions, but there seems to be a preponderance of critics. This means that when the reporters go in for a kicking, they get a lot of positive feedback, immediately, and a chorus of people defending the kicking against anyone who disagrees.
It's not really surprising or new that the majority of feedback on a topic be negative; most people who bother to chime into the Letters section of a newspaper, or come out to a city council meeting, etc, are the people who're unhappy. What is new is the first person dialog between reporters and the readers, and that immediate positive feedback when they write a story that makes the critics happy.
It really feels to me like some of the reporters are falling prey to confirmation bias. Funny, then, that one of the criticisms of William is that he surrounds himself with yes men. A bit of projection?
All the royal correspondents are on Twitter, and if you follow the dialogs that they're having with people, *most* of the people who engage with them are highly critical of the Cambridges. There are a few exceptions, but there seems to be a preponderance of critics. This means that when the reporters go in for a kicking, they get a lot of positive feedback, immediately, and a chorus of people defending the kicking against anyone who disagrees.
It's not really surprising or new that the majority of feedback on a topic be negative; most people who bother to chime into the Letters section of a newspaper, or come out to a city council meeting, etc, are the people who're unhappy. What is new is the first person dialog between reporters and the readers, and that immediate positive feedback when they write a story that makes the critics happy.
It really feels to me like some of the reporters are falling prey to confirmation bias. Funny, then, that one of the criticisms of William is that he surrounds himself with yes men. A bit of projection?