From Lauren Weinstein's list: >Churnalism: Discover When News Copies from Other Sources >http://j.mp/ZNeRdy (Sunlight Foundation) > > "Churnalism US is a new web tool and browser extension that allows > anyone to compare the news you read against existing content to > uncover possible instances of plagiarism. It is a joint project with > the Media Standards Trust."
I'd have thought that a service like that would drown in the data. For actual news stories, isn't there prettymuch a straight line back to AP, AFP, AAP, et al.? And of course the database will be of little real use unless it also contains at least the media releases and 'copy' issued by corporations and governments. It would be preferable that it also include the 'managed leaks' from 'uusually reliable sources', but these aren't expressed in any copiable form - in order to sustain credible deniability and hence the mirage of journalism. -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 1472, and 6288 6916 mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of NSW Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
