3 ms·

I'm all for "badge incentives" of some sort, that would show you can expect higher quality of service from someone. Kind of like the "approved" names on Twitter

I'm all for "badge incentives" of some sort, that would show you can expect higher quality of service from someone. Kind of like the "approved" names on Twitter. But that doesn't mean you should ban all the other names. And it also doesn't mean you should ban all the other "non-press". If we had that since the beginning, we wouldn't have blogs now. We'd just have online divisions of the print media. Plus, I think we should focus our attention on "acts of journalism", like Jeff Jarvis put it, not "journalists". If I see something, I can make an act of journalism, without having a journalist ID. I think it's for the best and a nice evolution of news gathering. It's just that it's also another form of decentralization and empowering of the individual, and Governments hate that. They like stuff to be centralized, so they can filter out what they don't like. It's clear all the traditional media is filtering stuff out that the Government wouldn't like these days.

ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
"It's clear all the traditional media is filtering stuff out that the Government wouldn't like these days." Yes, and that's why one solution is to consume media from countries which are intensely critical of the US. For example, I regularly watch Russia Today, online. Even though some of it is Russian propaganda, they usually have some information about, or a different perspective on, US-related events that I can't get in the US media. http://rt.com http://rt.com EDIT: I just went over there, and coincidentally, one of the top stories is quite relevant to this thread. http://rt.com/usa/news/homeland-security-journalists-monitoring-321 http://rt.com/usa/news/homeland-security-journalists-monitor... (Homeland Security monitors journalists)(2012-JAN-07)
- nextparadigms 15y ago
  Yes, RT is pretty good. Better than pretty much anything in US right now.

ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago

"It's clear all the traditional media is filtering stuff out that the Government wouldn't like these days." Yes, and that's why one solution is to consume media from countries which are intensely critical of the US. For example, I regularly watch Russia Today, online. Even though some of it is Russian propaganda, they usually have some information about, or a different perspective on, US-related events that I can't get in the US media. http://rt.com http://rt.com EDIT: I just went over there, and coincidentally, one of the top stories is quite relevant to this thread. http://rt.com/usa/news/homeland-security-journalists-monitoring-321 http://rt.com/usa/news/homeland-security-journalists-monitor... (Homeland Security monitors journalists)(2012-JAN-07)

nextparadigms 15y ago
Yes, RT is pretty good. Better than pretty much anything in US right now.