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People supplied small scale infrastructure for free Maybe that's the answer, then. Speaking of media and journalism, I see very little of value coming from the
by Karunamon 11y ago
People supplied small scale infrastructure for free
Maybe that's the answer, then. Speaking of media and journalism, I see very little of value coming from the large centralized outlets nowadays. There's entirely too much agenda pushing, non-objectivity being paraded around as if that's a positive, "native" advertisements, banality as "breaking news", and all the other nonsense everyone already knows.
Think about it - look at how guarded you have to be when consuming news to ensure you're not consuming an advertisement or a propaganda piece. Look how often you have to ask the question "What is this person trying to get me to believe?"
This shouldn't be necessary!
I think we can do better. And I think the problem isn't with the players per se, but with the game as its rules are currently written. That means we start over, with a new architecture, new everything.
Call me an extremist, but I'm quickly coming to the conclusion that things like news shouldn't be profit makers. The desire for more money in that industry perverts just about everything it touches. What good is paying reporters to go source facts if they're going to be distorted and manipulated by the time they're presented to the public?
- CM30 11y ago100% agree with this. The state of modern journalism (in general) is pretty much appalling at the moment, and it in its current form going away would arguably be a positive for the world in general. And the kind of news and editorials provided by the community (social media posts, forum content, blog posts, wiki articles, etc) could well be a better replacement for it. After all, they're already more accurate than the vast majority of the commercial media (since there are fewer financial/political incentives to lie), and the amount of ads and tracking is a lot less as well.