She didn’t know what happened, and these sympathetic messages were unsettling.
Instead, they’ve ditched the one-source mindset, scoured the internet, and researched their way to the truth. If they had long hair and jeans they were all the same to him.”A chapter on Tony’s time in India with the Gurkhas, for instance, features a tiger’s face, built up from a simple outline of an upside down martini glass. Twitter’s Trends, Facebook’s Trending feature, and Reddit’s popular-voting system have all, at some point, stripped the context from old news stories. Hart met his wife, Jean Skingle, while working in television; they married in 1953. If I can be just one-tenth of what dad was then that’s OK.”“He described what he was doing as if he was talking to a friend and he showed a way of making pictures that you could master even if you didn’t have an artistic bone in your body.“He loved his life and when he was really busy he’d spend hours in his studio in the garden drawing – you’d bring him a cup of tea and he’d be quite likely to stick his paintbrush in it he would be so engrossed.Stay up-to-date on the best stories from across the county by signing up to the daily SurreyLive newsletterThat’s because, as he found out later, this group was The Rolling Stones and the one on the show had been the Swinging Blue Jeans. “That’s essentially them doing the jobs of journalists, right?” says Newman.Those tweets and similar tributes were published after Hart passed away—for the second time—in mid-February.As Facebook’s director of product management, Will Cathcart oversees the News Feed and the year-old Trending feature. Volunteer moderators manage each vertical—commonly called subreddits—and every one of the 9,000 active communities plays by a different set of rules. The only weakness in his knowledge, she said, was pop music, an Achilles heel which prompted one of the amusing anecdotes in the book.“I thought it would be good for us both to have a joint project and as dad had so many wonderful tales to tell I suggested an autobiography,” she said. “So, these social networks are very different, but they’re definitely changing the way news is distributed.” Americans might not know the name “Tony Hart,” but in England, he was as famous and beloved as Mister Rogers. Right now, it requires making room for urgent climate stories—from hurricanes in North America and record heat in Siberia to recently-updated future...His second death occurred in an information universe that runs on social media buzz.Carolyn Ross was at work this winter when someone asked if she’d heard the news about her dad. But it let out an awful smell in the studio just before a pop group that was standing by came on for the next segment.Carolyn relates how once in the 1960s Tony had a rather unlikely co-star – a skunk.“He was tolerant, enthusiastic, always had the time to listen to others and I try and emulate him. In-depth enterprise stories can reignite lively discussions when they find new life on social media, too. As Taylor points out, some of Reddit’s communities aim to add greater context or forgotten facts to contemporary discussions. Those figures are generally true worldwide, depending on the country, says Nic Newman, who helped shape the BBC’s online presence in its infancy and is now a research associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.
“They are bumping into news, traditionally on Facebook, or, with other social networks, they’re actively going out and using those networks to find news,” he says. Reddit’s director of communications, Victoria Taylor, says moderators of news-heavy subreddits, like /r/WorldNews, often slap clearly visible labels on posts with misleading headlines or outdated information. We both have a silly, schoolboy-ish sense of humour – mum had to be the grown-up in the house.Written by Carolyn Ross, the only child of the well loved artist and TV presenter whose programmes were watched by millions of children over nearly 50 years, it presents Tony just as his fans would want – a great guy and an inspiring father bubbling over with fun.“He’d break off only for meals and to march over the heath, where he took photos of leaves, stones, twigs and creatures that would be the root of some amazing design.”According to Carolyn, Tony was extremely knowledgeable and always knew the answers to her questions. She received several Facebook messages from friends who were concerned about her grandpa. As many learned at the end of 2014 through Facebook’s Year in Review, the algorithms that build our online experience can be cruel, forcing people to recall breakups and deaths as much as engagements and births. It inspired one fan to flip through her old Tony Hart art books. Shortly afterward, she approached Ross about naming an art therapy club, where she worked with clients who had psychological problems, after Hart. They were married for 50 years until she died in 2003. This lovely man has died,’ ” she says.Covering the climate crisis requires the ability to look in many different directions at once, and reconcile them. They had a daughter, Carolyn, and two grandchildren.