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By crowdsourcing news, it gets faster, but more biased. Quality journalism takes time to create. Hence, impulse-reporting like Twitter will never improve news.
by qznc 15y ago
By crowdsourcing news, it gets faster, but more biased. Quality journalism takes time to create. Hence, impulse-reporting like Twitter will never improve news.
- Karunamon 15y agoBy crowdsourcing news, it gets faster, but more biased. How does that work? It's much easier to influence a single person (i.e. the talking head on the TV) than it is 100 people (who probably have a great deal of different biases and perspectives)
- MALAKAWN 15y agoBut Twitter is already being used massively by big news corporations... Of course verification and analysis is needed on top of Twitter but it's still a useful tool.