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Open Source Journalism

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the working-together-to-find-the-truth dept.

jvm writes "Markos of Daily Kos wrote today of what he describes as the legacy of blogging: open source. Not software, but the philosophy. From the article: "When I'm asked about blogging's legacy, I talk about open source. Open source politics, open source activism, open source journalism -- the aggregation of thousands on behalf of a common cause." Relatedly, egoff writes "You might have seen some coverage of Jeff Gannon, a conservative reporter who lobbed softball questions during White House press briefings. It was discovered that he was using an alias to get past White House security. The language of open source development is used throughout their description of the reporting process. At Poynter Online, journalists discussing this story have compared the random blog readers who did the bulk of this research to "what Woodstein did back in the day.""

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  1. what about ... by BlackShirt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    open government? I even like the sound of these words.

  2. Helen Thomas by ugmoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why are those questions lowlights, but Helen Thomas' questions are celebrated by antiwar.com and others?

    In a November 2002 talk at MIT, Thomas revealed: "I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'"

    http://slate.msn.com/id/2080034/ Helen Thomas the Pundit writes a sharply partisan syndicated White House column about what she thinks--as opposed to Helen Thomas the Reporter, who wrote about what she'd learned.

    http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0108-05.htm http://www.antiwar.com/comment/helen.html Helen Thomas Socks it to the White House

    HELEN THOMAS: At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up.

    MS. THOMAS: My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?

  3. Re:Sounds like Communism to me. by MerlinTheWizard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh yeah? Like communism ever promoted freedom? Collectivism is the very opposite of freedom! If you share freely with one another, it's anything but communism. If you're forced to share and have no freedom of speech, that's communism.

    Have you never helped out a neighbor or family for free? And you knew you could ask for a favor later on? Does that make you a communist? Dear Lord!