Will A 'News Inspector' That Lets Readers See Hidden Edits Of Articles Restore Confidence In Journalism?
Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 14:10
in Mathematics & Economics
News delivery and consumption has rapidly changed in the digital era. Sites like Science 2.0 were once dismissed by corporate-controlled media, but now the BBC, The New Yorker and Forbes use blog format online news delivery. But they do things a little differently. In a rush to push out news ahead of their competitors, they will throw up a story and then edit it on the fly. Sometimes it isn't even a human, a computer could be writing the story within minutes of it happening.Is it too easy to conceal mistakes, misrepresentation and bias? Are news outlets producing content at the expense of hard fact, proper investigation, credibility and truth? read more