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Authored by: UncleVom on Tuesday, December 04 2012 @ 10:46 PM EST |
A journal does not a journalist make.
Many bloggers and news sources just harvest from other
bloggers and news sources, they may rewrite the piece and/or
add comments but the content remains the same for all
intents and purposes. They rarely venture into the wild or
even leave there chair.
The various fake news incidents recently point to the depth
of this problem.
This of course is not new the problem has been happening for
years to an extent with the consolidation of media ownership
and the use of wire news services.
For larger media and those hoping to become larger,
advertisers and manufacturers often end up calling the shots
either directly or indirectly. A bad review or a good
review for the competition and no more advertising dollars
for you. The same thing will get you cut out of the loop
with events and sample products.
Despite the problems of plagiarism, I think this latter
example is what has caused the Semi-Accurate situation.
Charlie has gone well beyond biting the potential feeding
hand, add in bandwidth, travel, lodging and information
costs and the model is/was long term unsustainable.
I don't know if the time delay, filtering, will have the
desired effect for him, I hope so.
Maybe people paying him will enable more exposure through
third parties to his take on the Industry situation.
That would help us all and possibly provide a model for
others to follow, which might help the quality of reporting
all around.
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