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Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative (X) market-based ( ) crowd-sourced
approach to saving journalism. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.
(One or more of the following may apply.)
( ) It does not provide an income stream to the working journalist ( ) Nobody will spend eight hours sitting in a dull council meeting to do it ( ) No one will be able to find the guy (X) It is defenseless against copy-and-paste (X) It tries to prop up a fundamentally broken business model (X) Users of the web will not put up with it ( ) Print readers will not put up with it ( ) Good journalists will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from unwilling sources ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (X) Many publishers cannot afford to lose what little business they have left ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business ( ) Even papers run by trusts and charities are already going bankrupt Specifically, your plan fails to account for (X) Readers' unwillingness to pay for just news ( ) The existence and popularity of the BBC (X) Unavoidable availability of free alternatives ( ) Sources' proven unwillingness to "go direct" ( ) The difficulty of investigative journalism ( ) The massive tedium of investigative journalism (X) The high cost of investigative journalism ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes (X) Editorial departments small enough to be profitable are too small to do real reporting ( ) Legal liability of "citizen journalism" ( ) The training required to be even an rubbish journalist (X) What readers want, in the main, is celebrity and football ( ) The necessity of the editing process (X) Americans' huge distrust of professional journalism ( ) Reluctance of governments and corporations to be held to account by two guys with a blog ( ) Inability of two guys with a blog to demand anything ( ) How easy it is for subjects to manipulate two guys with no income ( ) Rupert Murdoch ( ) The inextricably local nature of much newsgathering ( ) The dependence of all other forms of news media on print reporting ( ) The dependence of national press on local press reporting ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) The tragedy of the commons ( ) The classified-driven business model of much print publishing (X) The tiny amounts of money to be made from online ads for small sites
Source: http://www.metafilter.com/85761/How-To-Save-Media#2776753
