2009/6/22 Fred Bauder <[email protected]>: > Remember, we have people in Iran. > > Fred
But not reporters and I don't think wikinews is getting much stuff. The view is understandable. So called citizen journalism doesn't do much in the way of original research or reporting and the cases that it does do per year can generally be counted on the fingers of one hand. In the overwhelming majority of cases Blogs and the like consist of nothing more than commenting on stories in the traditional media. Stories they worked hard to get. Heh even when there was that plane crash on the Hudson river, an ideal case for citizen journalism, we only got a handful of photos. Any event that requires talking to people or moveing outside major western population centers? In all likelihood will only be covered by traditional news. If you were really prepared to scrape around a bit I suppose you could argue that indymedia is something of a counter example but even that is somewhat limited. Wikipedia can be argued to be slightly different since it pulls background info from non news sources (books, journals specialist publications) but for info on current events it still very much rides on the back of the traditional news media. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
