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Bad crowd-sourced journalism makes you dumber. Good crowd-sourced journalism makes you smarter and saves you time.
by brandnewlow 17y ago
Bad crowd-sourced journalism makes you dumber. Good crowd-sourced journalism makes you smarter and saves you time.
- potatolicious 17y agoTrue, but unless you place some really strict filters on the crowd you're sourcing from, odds are the vast majority of it will be bad, and make you dumber. 'Tis the reason why I stopped using any sort of aggregator (Slashdot, reddit, Digg, etc.) for any news. The average intelligence and professionalism demonstrated on such sites is so low that I'd rather be staring at a wall than reading those sites.
- brandnewlow 17y agonews.YC is an aggregator.
- potatolicious 17y agoI don't really read it for "news" though - it's more of a "hey someone wrote/created something cool" source for me, which is a-ok as a crowdsourced thing.
- knightinblue 17y agoThe average intelligence and professionalism demonstrated on this site is pretty darn high.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoMore generally: Bad journalism makes you dumber. Good journalism makes you smarter and saves you time.