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It's really, really tough to do that for news. Journalism has a very short shelf life, and can be costly to produce. Remember, what you read as a consumer is
by jaredwiener 5y ago
It's really, really tough to do that for news.
Journalism has a very short shelf life, and can be costly to produce. Remember, what you read as a consumer is only the end product, there were a lot of calls, interviews, etc -- and those can be costly. You could have a reporter sitting at a city council meeting, for example, for four hours - -and have nothing of value to publish. Or a ton. You don't know.
Beyond that, corporate contributors end up looking more like NPR than open source -- while a company might be based entirely around a DLang codebase, that doesnt really happen with news. So there are underwriters, but it looks more like either donations or advertisements.
- WalterBright 5y agoIn the 80s it was well known that an open source language project could never work.
- fouric 5y ago"Some skeptics said that this other, completely unrelated kind of project couldn't be funded using this model several decades ago, and they were wrong." isn't a compelling argument. The GP post actually pointed out several differences between journalism and programming language development, and they seem pretty important to me - so unless you actually address those points, it seems safe to assume that you're comparing apples to oranges.
- WalterBright 5y agoFor one thing, aspiring journalists would want to contribute to it to "build their brand". This motivates lots of contributors to Open Source, Wikipedia, and Stackoverflow. There are many tells for fake news. One, for example, is citing anonymous sources. Another is inventing a trend out of a single data point. One tell I use is when the journalist uses hyperbolic words, and clearly opinionated words like "bad". > isn't a compelling argument. Of course. Until somebody does it anyway. My entire career is based off of doing things everyone told me would never work.
- dredmorbius 5y agoAmateur journalism has been tried, repeatedly. It's not an unknown or unproven concept. What it is is something that doesn't work.