Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App

Re:Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much ... by catalogia on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:41PM (#23751221)

> Do you think the fact that some journalists maliciously crop social media posts means that we should replace the institutional model with a "Github" model of professional journalists?

No, I definitely don't.

I think techies who think they've got all the answers for how to fix journalism are hubristic, but I also think journalists who think all is well with their industry need to get off their high horse and do some introspection too. I think both industries are in a crisis, and it happens that the two crises have nontrivial overlap; the tools the tech industry has been creating over the past 15 or so years have been exacerbating the problems in journalism. So no, I definitely don't think the tech industry is situated to solve the problems with journalism; judging by past performance the tech industry has a deleterious effect on journalism and I don't foresee this changing soon.

I don't know how to fix journalism, nor do I know how to fix the tech industry.

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Re:Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much ... by 6510 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:51AM (#23759846)

I don't know either but I do know it starts with figuring out what journalism is or is suppose to be. You know it when you see it is not a good position to progress from. I'm not thinking of a single answer or a definition of what it is not.(or not suppose to be) I also have no idea who should make the decisions here :-) Perhaps we should all make up our mind indevidually.

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