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mk  ·  3309 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is it time for the Internet to grow up?

    We need some kind of authority to vet what is represented as news but when anyone can blog or tweet a shoddy and hasty observation as something of importance and it can be picked up and redistributed by organizations that purport to have integrity it's a slap in the face to what journalism has been for a couple hundred years.

Your impression of past journalism might be a bit rose-colored. Prior to the last century, there wasn't any independent news to speak of. Even in the second half of the 1900's when news outlets could afford genuine investigative journalism, the topics they chose to cover were heavily influenced by politics and cultural bias. We are smack in the middle of a disruption of how journalism is paid for and distributed. It's messy, but there are actually many quality outfits to be found, and if anything the pluralism is an improvement.

Speaking as someone that used computers before the web, the internet has been transformative. I don't even know who you are, or where you are, but we can converse about a topic like this.