Is Crowd-sourced Journalism Making You Dumber?(techvibes.com)
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Is Crowd-sourced Journalism Making You Dumber?
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Bad crowd-sourced journalism makes you dumber. Good crowd-sourced journalism makes you smarter and saves you time.
True, but unless you place some really strict filters on the crowd you're sourcing from, odds are the vast majority of it will be bad, and make you dumber.
'Tis the reason why I stopped using any sort of aggregator (Slashdot, reddit, Digg, etc.) for any news. The average intelligence and professionalism demonstrated on such sites is so low that I'd rather be staring at a wall than reading those sites.
'Tis the reason why I stopped using any sort of aggregator (Slashdot, reddit, Digg, etc.) for any news. The average intelligence and professionalism demonstrated on such sites is so low that I'd rather be staring at a wall than reading those sites.
news.YC is an aggregator.
I don't really read it for "news" though - it's more of a "hey someone wrote/created something cool" source for me, which is a-ok as a crowdsourced thing.
The average intelligence and professionalism demonstrated on this site is pretty darn high.
More generally: Bad journalism makes you dumber. Good journalism makes you smarter and saves you time.
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Intelligence is expressed in the quality of ideas, not the quality of words. An editorial could be written using 5th grade vernacular but also express ideas associated with post-grad work. This is just another sensationalistic article.
> An editorial could be written using 5th grade vernacular but also express ideas associated with post-grad work.
This happens so infrequently that I can't recall a single instance of it. Any particular examples?
Of course I agree that quality of thought comes first, but it is usually accompanied by good presentation.
This happens so infrequently that I can't recall a single instance of it. Any particular examples?
Of course I agree that quality of thought comes first, but it is usually accompanied by good presentation.
Off the top of my head, I seem to think that any book by Malcolm Gladwell would fit that description. Would you disagree?
Crowd-sourcing is often richer in background that was filtered-out by newspapers. I'm feeling smarter about history and real motives than I did back when mass media were all I had.
Really interesting article
All the blog posts about various internet phenomena making me dumber are making me dumber.