Sheep Dip: Read All About It (In French)

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Read All About It (In French)

6 February, 2009

An interesting piece by Jonathan Salem Baskin about the difference between online newspapers and traditional print-based ones. He argues that crowd-sourcing produces a consensus from a mix of opinion, not of facts; and that the media ‘conceptually, are aribiters of fact, if not truth’. I’m not sure I’m convinced, because even then ‘fact’ is generally one person’s interpretation of it. But well worth a read.

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One Response to “Read All About It (In French)”

  1. Midge says:
    6 February, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    I can’t find the article but there’s a similar argument regarding Wikepedia, that language rightly or wrongly is being ‘democrasised’ , i.e changing the actual meanings of words to what the concensus of people think they mean.

      

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