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Developing the Future of Investigative Journalism Online
meckdevil writes "If you're a cutting-edge geek with an interest in investigative journalism, there's a great job opening at the badly named Reporter's Lab, a project supported by Duke University's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy. Headed up by former Washington Post editor and reporter Sarah Cohen, the Reporter's Lab is Duke's effort to extend what is known as 'computational journalism' into the realm of investigative reporting and thereby make investigative reporters more efficient and effective."
I watch FOX News religiously.
We have enough of that already and we don't need it to be any more 'efficient' than it already is.
That will require the ability to make anonymous untraceable submissions, since the government spends most of its energy prosecuting and vilifying whistle blowers these days.
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
Investigate and if you don't find anything, make it up.
goooooooooooooooood morning spaceball one!
msm spoonfed news rules
try and change it
and you'll lose
because it has to be spoonfed
or it's not tolerated
wait for it... cans of air banned in public! exhaust from cars everywhere but no smoking allowed! you see, second hand cigarette smoke is bad but car fumes good! breathe deep my friends...
Journalism isn't going to come from a College who abuses and uses CAFR and won't talk about CAFR. Right now, our officials who we can't even tell if they are elected or not cause the ballots can't be counted anymore, are all about destroying the Constitution and Bill Of Rights, while destroying the markets, monetary system, pensions, savings, retirement. Might as well enjoy the ride until it comes to your front door via haarp in weapon mode, with fema and dhs right behind. And what channel shall it all be broadcast on? The FCC channel, the DHS channel. Some fuckass blackhat SEO censored news website without a search engine? Some government website with a bunch of fucking PDF's which are unsearchable. Fuck Journalists. Fuck Everyone, this shit is pathetic. Go back to compiling your fucking kernels, before they come to kill you off next for speaking out. There is no Constitution or bill of rights, only a bunch of banksters and oligarchs. There is no justice. There is no freedom. Just a bunch of trolls to mark this post down into never to be seen mode.
http://cafr1.com
http://blackboxvoting.org
http://prisonplanet.com
http://zerohedge.com
http://www.dutchsinse.com/blog/?p=660
Today's bloggers do not have to worry about such things as "journalism", "investigative reporting", "grammar", or "objectivity". Look at a typical posting on Engadget or Gawker to see each of these points burned to the ground. Today's bloggers just need to read a brief summary from a real news source (like the NYTimes), form some type of inner rage or indignation, and write out a few snarky comments with a link to the source. This is what today's 20-something audience demands. Who needs "facts" or "reasoning" when a quick, witty blogpost is all that's desired?
Duke University isn't that the school that believes in guilty until proven innocent?
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
How about more accurate?
It's called Hacking. You fucking ass wipes. We were doing this long ago, and BBSes were our news distribution channels of choice.
Three problems:
1. People with lots of money want their secrets kept that way.
2. People with no clue also didn't give a shit about our "news" (go figure).
3. Big Dumb Media Companies of the world demonized the very term Hacker.
Good luck with that -- It's fucking illegal, thanks in no small part to the fear mongering, MPAA/RIAA backed, political agenda pushing media... Deal with your internal corruption first, then I might consider believing any bullshit you big time "Journalists" spout.
Actually, your time has passed, I don't even own a TV anymore -- Get Bent,
Hackers of the World
Great! Another job for computer crackers and stalkers. Just browse cnn.com during coffee break and when something big pops up do a little work on Facebook (Social Engineering anyone?) send a phishing email and BANG! you have more back story than you could ever want.
And that goes the same for many of the news media outlets the bloggers get their info-rage from. Take a look at a NYT article from today and compare it to something 60 years ago...then compare it to the average blogger vent. Its the same for many newspapers as the editing team is handpicked by the owning group. The Austin American Statesman suffers from this as well as an inability to report without prejudice. The news is polarized these days and you have to really pick through it to get to the truth...its almost not worth the effort.
So, in other words, at the rate we're going investigative journalism is going to look much like Trade chat in World of Warcraft? That's hardly news...
For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice.
Either Lamo is lying about what Manning said (and the postings are doctored) or Lamo is morally bankrupt because he did not protect his source and mislead Manning, or Lamo is completely incompetent as a 'journalist". Speaking off the record to a reporter does not count as "admitting" anything in any legally meaningful way. (No, I do not believe for a second that Lamo made things clear to Manning, a real reporter would NOT allow a whistleblowing source to compromise himself this way.)
From your link:
"In an interview with Yahoo! News, Lamo says that he spelled out very clearly in his chats with Manning that he wasn't affiliated with WikiLeaks or acting as a journalist. Lamo even offered, he says, to speak to Manning as a reporter and to protect his identity — and Manning refused.
It's unclear why Manning would reject such an offer. Lamo says he suspects that Manning didn't want to get caught up in negotiating which portions of their instant-message chats would be considered on the record, off the record or on background.
But that reluctance seems to indicate a presumption on Manning's part that their entire conversation was off the record. If that was the case, then Lamo's description of himself as a journalist may have led Manning to reasonably believe that, under the circumstances, Lamo had an ethical obligation to protect his identity. Lamo insists that he was clear to Manning that he had taken his journalist hat off for the purposes of their conversation. We asked Lamo to provide the relevant portion of the chat; he replied that he needed to talk to his lawyer before sharing it with us."
So bloggers are just like any other news outlet then?
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
FYI: it was the inability of Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame to publish their documentary evidence that the Bush administration had started the Iraq war under false pretenses that instantiated Wikileaks. They had documents proving that Bush lied, on national television, about Saddam Hussein trying to build nuclear weapons. This was a stated reason for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. No "journalist" worldwide was willing and able to publish their explosive documents.
People who had already considered building something like Wikileaks were galvanized into action. They began the Wikileaks project in November of 2003. There was a lot to do, so it took several years before Julian registered the domain. At first they didn't even have a name for it.
This author agrees with you that starting wars under false pretenses is worse than persecuting whistle blowers. What you did not know, before reading this, is that the war under false pretenses, and the inability of the media to honestly report on it, was the reason for the founding of Wikileaks.
This statement its not hearsay or supposition. I was there while it happened, and was very much caught up in the process. In early 2004 Valerie Plame stayed at my house and met with a Wikileaks Architect. This is a first person account from a long time slashdot reader and contributor.
An editor pwned by Corporate America's owner/operators.
Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"
...it' s just a rather convoluted way to promote voyeurtools.
Mostly harmless.
If your news outlet relies on advertising revenue then you can kiss goodbye to any genuine attempt to pursue investigative journalism.
Uncontested advertising tilts the whole game in favour of the producer then the reliance of the news media on the producer for advertising revenue tilts it still further. There is no mechanism built into the system to tilt it back the other way. The customer is shafted in all manner of ways.
Some well intentioned people have given it a bit of thought and tried to produce free outlets for news stories (Indymedia for one). Unfortunately the people who write most of the articles which appear there are as bad as the mainstream media in that they push their own particular agenda with little regard for the facts or the wider picture and so they remain a fringe effect.
Most whistleblowers have suffered as a result of their bravery. That is why WikiLeaks is so important. Brad Manning had to break the law to see justice done and the evil of his government exposed.If Reporter's Lab is not going to churn out the views of the social elite then secrecy and protection for sources is paramount. http://tinyurl.com/42lxuch