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Open-source News? Wiki Builds a New Kind of Journalism

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While on its face the Wiki model sounds more likely to produce trustworthy information than a blog, the facelessness of Wikis give some observers pause. "With blogs, over time you can figure out who you can trust," said Dan Kennedy, media critic for the Boston Phoenix. "With the Wikipedia, you don't know who's contributing to it."

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mvermeer ·
"It's all sourced to mainstream news organizations," media critic Kennedy observed. "Maybe over time, people are going to do something different from that and be reporters, but at the moment it seems that people are just rewriting the wires, crediting them and putting that up as Wikinews. This is a breakthrough?"

Hmm, isn't this how the CIA and others do most of their intelligence work too? Analyzing open sources. Give them some slack eh, it's only a demo yet.

"...I don't think it's going to be competitive with hard-nosed, investigative journalism. That's the role for experts with access."

Yeah, and a great job they're doing too :-(

...and BTW wikis track their contribution history too, for those who'd rather believe authority than evidence :-)

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