Chicago Sun-Times lays off entire photo staff and is now using more video !

Gillvane said:
Think about it though. Good journalism also becomes less necessary. It was very important when you relied on 3 networks and a couple of Newspapers for information before the internet. Those were your sources. If it was wrong there, you'd never know.

Now it's much harder to keep secrets with iphones video taping everything, email conversations, twitter, facebook, podcasts, youtube videos, vimeo, pinterest, cable tv stations, satellite radio....

The WHAT still gets reported. The difference is now YOU are responsible for figuring out the WHY.

For example, there was a tornado in Oklahoma recently that did massive damage. EVERYTHING substiantates that, twitter, Fox, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, AP news, Bill O'Reilly, Rachel Maddow, and so on. No one disagrees on WHAT happened. A tornado.

They WHY? Everyone disagrees. Was it "global warming", "climate change", was it just weather like we've always had, is it getting worse, better, the same, unknown? EVERYONE has an opinion on that.

Used to be ABC would tell you WHY and you'd have to believe it. That was that. Now, they only tell you WHAT and the WHY is up to you to figure out.

I don't think that's so bad.
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I couldn't disagree more. I think in an age where citizen journalism abounds, dependable, fact-checked reporting is more important than ever before - because it's even easier these days for the truth of a matter to be lost amongst all the din.

I fear we're all going to rue the death of journalism.
 
OldCorpse said:
You're right. I didn't look closely enough - in that "politics" in the TOS actually encompasses a much broader category, and into 'controversial topics' and 'current affairs', which may, but may NOT have anything to do with politics. It's right there in the TOS, I just didn't see it. Who knows, would it make sense to break it out into a separate rule? Sort of like we have "no religion" even though the line separating religion and politics is much, much, much closer than the line separating "controversial topics" and politics. Regardless, point made - controversial topics. Still somewhat amusing to me that scientific facts enter this category (isn't science supposed to be the poster boy for unemotional objectivity?), but such is the world.
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Final word on this. You know that it, as a topic, has a lot more going on with it than "scientific fact." You know that it's controversial, and you know that the posts in the thread concerned much more than just "scientific fact." Do not push this any further.
 
I do see this all the time, people confusing memes and satire as fact. Just the other day I'm on facebook and I see someone post as an absolute fact that Monsanto cucumbers cause pubic baldness and have been banned in Nova Soctia. Then 5 other people rush in to say how awful Monsanto is and how this is one more piece of evidence against them, etc., etc.

Took me less than 5 minutes to find that this was originally a satire piece from The Lapine.
http://www.thelapine.ca/

The Lapine is like a Canadian version of The Onion, but these people were using it as a 2nd hand resource to spread "the facts" about the evil Monsanto.

There's always been conspiracy theorists that were ready to believe what they wanted to, it's just easier for them to find each other and spread information now.

I don't think "real journalism" would make any difference for these people. Like the people that actually get much of their "news" from John Stewart. if you offered them a fair, balanced, objective alternative they wouldn't be interested. I like Stewart because he's funny, but I wouldn't depend on him as a source of information.
 
Chicago Sun-Times trains reporters to shoot with iPhones after laying off all its photographers

"The Sun-Times business is changing rapidly and our audiences are consistently seeking more video content with their news," the paper said Thursday. "We have made great progress in meeting this demand and are focused on bolstering our reporting capabilities with video and other multimedia elements."
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http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/1/43...ire-photography-staff-trains-reporters-iphone

There was a good discussion on this on TWiT TV (This Week in Tech ) yesterday that is the following video starting at the 07:10 mark :

http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-tech/408
 
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