Re: Use of the free website
Subject: Re: Use of the free website
From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
Date: 10/3/10, 01:43
To: Dynamic <dynamicuno@gmail.com>
CC: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>, Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>

Hi, Tim, did you get any responses to this?  This is really more Barrett's area than mine, but for what it's worth here's my thoughts.

First, there are problems that Project PM is intended to address:

With the huge quantity of media output now available, how does the citizen find his way to true, well-informed, intellectually honest reporting and analysis?

Since all of us (well, those of us in the internet-accessing world) can now be simultaneously reporters and publishers, nobody does the job formerly done by editors: testing the material for accuracy, factual support, completeness, bias, collusion with commercial interests, quality of expression and (never having been an editor) all the things that good editors used to do. (Project PM is designed to build a process into the circulation of information that performs these functions).

Second, here's a couple of my own:

Club membership: certain journalists are given a forum associated with a big audience, a presumption of wisdom, and armor-like respectability by virtue of things unrelated to the merits of the individual pieces of reporting and analysis they are now producing. (Working your way up at the NYT, buying a forum, networking with the wealthy, stroking government officials, etc.)

Flag waving and bible-thumping: this is nothing new in our country: Twain went after this, so did Mencken, unfortunately the internet empowers it; television, and not just Fox, gives a forum to Pat Robertson and worse; why must we hear both sides of the story when one side is religious or 'patriotically' driven nonsense?

Clark





On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Dynamic <dynamicuno@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all,

I'm setting to work on the media problems project and I'm interested in your opinions on the most pressing media problems facing us. If you've got a spare minute, please list as many as you can think of and have time to write down (I recognize one could spend days highlighting the problems in the media). As broad or as specific as you like, the more the better.

Thanks!



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