John Herman at nymag.com: Social media is for consuming disasters, not surviving them. Social media was once a source for lifesaving news and information during national disasters, aggregating the work of journalists and first responders alongside user-generated content. Now it’s engagement-bait.
Herman singles out Watch Duty for praise, and I agree — we watched it slavishly to see if the fires were spreading south to San Diego. They did not, thank goodness.