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Originally Posted by Botnst
Anyway, with the Internet we can access so many different sources of information that we can obtain more points of view than we are capable of synthesizing.
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The internet, when it comes to news reporting, is not so much a "wealth of information" as it is noise obscuring the signal. While every cellphone camera on the planet may be able to deliver a picture or clip . . . does it provide the facts or merely sampling the ocean with a thimble? The latter I think.
The internet model of news reporting is scary. If there is no economic model, who pays for the real reporters working on real stories to prevent us from ending up with TMZ or YouTube reporting. If more newspapers can't afford to operate, it's going to be one long sucession of news stories about young caucasian women going missing.