This is what happens under capitalism when private news organizations are disrupted by the Internet.
The solution is a collaborative news site, we don’t need intrepid reporters going into war zones when everyone can record video on their phone. We don’t need biased clickbait news providing fodder for soial network algorithms to herd us into echo chambers. We need a place where people of all viewpoints meet and duke it out like Wikipedia but for news.
There's a difference between the photos people take on a phone and the journalism that people like Tyler Hicks do. It's just not the same. Please show me a crowd sourced article that has this impact. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/20/world/middlee...
This is what happens under capitalism when private news organizations are disrupted by the Internet.
The solution is a collaborative news site, we don’t need intrepid reporters going into war zones when everyone can record video on their phone. We don’t need biased clickbait news providing fodder for soial network algorithms to herd us into echo chambers. We need a place where people of all viewpoints meet and duke it out like Wikipedia but for news.
PS: wikinews in particular sucks though