Re:Citizen pays New Yorkers to livestream crime scenes
by tablespoon on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:26PM
(#27964158)
> To put even a slightly finer point on it -- isn't this, in a sense, journalism without a filter?
I don't think it's journalism if it doesn't have a filter. IMHO, the job of journalists is to filter through a bunch of garbage to produce something that's succinct, informative, and as truthful as possible (given the constraints). Publishing a stream of raw garbage is not that.
I don't think it's journalism if it doesn't have a filter. IMHO, the job of journalists is to filter through a bunch of garbage to produce something that's succinct, informative, and as truthful as possible (given the constraints). Publishing a stream of raw garbage is not that.