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I seriously believe that event-based journalism, for lack of a better term I can't think of (eg. sports, war, elections, etc) need real journalists on the groun
by PakG1 15y ago
I seriously believe that event-based journalism, for lack of a better term I can't think of (eg. sports, war, elections, etc) need real journalists on the ground in order to capture nuances that would get missed through virtual networks. My issue isn't about the quality or accuracy of the facts, but it's about curation of the facts to grab what matters and put it into an efficient and coherent story. Without the effort of quality journalists on the ground, I'm forced to try to curate all that myself, which is very time consuming, or rely on someone else who is equally removed from the subject to curate it for me, which is pretty much journalism anyway (except they might miss something they wouldn't if they were on the ground). I know few people with that much time. I certainly don't have it. :(
- pessimizer 15y agoI see curation as the important problem right now. It's telling that the two web juggernauts right now are Google and Facebook - both basically curation companies through search and social networking. Of course blogs don't have to be first-order (in fact, more of them need to be!) Most blogs (like most traditional media these days) are parasitic off of factual traditional reporting and academic papers, and other blogs go off into third-order meta-analysis. If you need your narrative, there's somebody out there who wants to give it to you, we just have to figure out a way to make sure they can eat. Tax deductions for donations? Monthly billed funds to make sure that you can donate to sources that support the information you like to consume, but you may not have an awareness of?