Comments on: Open-sourcing the news

Jimmy Wales, leader of Net volunteers behind Wikipedia, thinks a collaborative process is needed to keep journalism honest.

Disregard of intellectual property.

I think the internet has cause peoople to think that intellectual
property is 0. Everything should be shared and not paid for.
There is no way for volunteer reporter to get news story. What
are they goinig to eat? eat the news??
I think this is just going to be like a subway free newspaper.

[unknown unknown]

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I don't think you know what you're talking about.

Did you read what it said?

An open collaborative editing process (wiki) for news. People can contribute news and edit it or others could. this is not a newspaper thing like the Metro. Did you ever open the website wikinews.org or wikipedia.org?!? i guess not! and second of all, the content of the wikipedia is published as is with the GFDL. some content can even be published under different license models... IP is really regarded here!

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red hat

If people cant live off what they make and share, then how come Red Hat makes lots of money off of selling Linux distributions that are free-to-share over the Internet/BitTorrent/The local Linux User Group?

You cant use up or kill an idea. Remember that.

All Media Has A Point Of View - No Such Thing As Objective Reporting

There is no such thing as objective reporting (on anything)
- there is always a point of view being expressed - always.

For example, despite the fact that there isn't one scientific
study showing that "HIV" is the probable cause of "AIDS" -
you would never know that by the "stories" put out by the
media owned by the rich or by the "indymedia"/
underground/weblogs etc..

The Village Voice Weekly used to have 5 reporters writing 5
different stories on the same topic/issue. Which is the way
to do it - 5 different subjective viewpoints all in the same
issue - the reader reads all 5 and decides. And yes quite
often there is no black or white "answer". (The Voice still
produces articles that gives a viewpoint not seen in the
regular or underground media. )

There is no reason an on-line media/news outlet cannot
have 5 different stories/viewpoints sitting there side by
side for the reader.

Wha?

What planet do you live on?

"For example, despite the fact that there isn't one scientific study showing that "HIV" is the probable cause of "AIDS" - you would never know that by the "stories" put out by the media owned by the rich or by the "indymedia"/
underground/weblogs etc.. "

Do yourself a favor and Google on over to "HIV AIDS link," where you'll find links to papers in Journal of the American Medical Association, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Science, etc., dealing with the HIV/AIDS link (mostly now through treatment and/or detection, but when you go back several years, you find the studies where the linkage was established).

I guess this just goes to prove your point, your "fact" is undeniably just a point of view. This is the type of thing the article says that Wikinews hopes to minimize through the use of "multiple eyes" acting as editors, not just addenda to outlying opinions which remain indefinitely. I, for one, hope it works.

[Al Johnsons]

way to do it

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[johnsfolly]

Feedback: open sourcing of news

Blogs are? or are not? different-how? from always allowed entirely? serious comments about, criticisms of public things, ideas and people, by citizens.

Blogs, as actally seen on the www etc. are often serious attempts as truthful indications.

But many do not tell the truth and some are dirrected toward and against, individuals, mostly clandestinely. Try indexing the full name of any unpopular idea writer or even phd scholar. Then check out the odd-funny-sardonic-unexpected stuff some, and then check out the webhoster-and his-her advertized location.

Do these hosters names-locations cluster-some?

Salvor Hardin said, "We encyclopediests are directly under the direction of the Emperor."

"This lasted one generation."
Hobar Mallow.

"If this goes on, even walking dogs will be unwise" Maureen Long-Howard.

Encyclopedia Galectica FE. 2341.