Amended:
--- steve v <vertigosteve(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Wikinews on the other hand, has largely remained
just
an experiment in 'throwing wiki software at the news
org idea'. It was bound to fail without some sincere
rethinking of the software and how it works, andmany
had commented a long time ago that some other...
...major rethinking needed to be done on the project.
Indymedia for example has a niche, which some claim is
driven by the POV entrenchment of core editors, but as
Darin pointed out, such a niche is is in fact no
different that why Fox News has succeeded commercially
etc, or why the concept of 'Independent media' (ie.
free media, open media, non-commercial media) are
dominantly leftist and egalitarian. Philosophy in fact
drives newsorgs, regardless of the editorial striving
for objectivity.
If you look at your average local newspapers and their
histories, theyve gone through an early period where
they catered to businesses (gain startup revenue,
establish clientele) -- later trying to move toward an
actual community sensibility: But rarely they move
toward an altruistic or egalitarian philosophy,
because egalitarianism and capitalism repel each other
like magnets, in the same way that commercial ads and
editorial policy converge like magnets. Every newsorg
has to find a balance between the push and pull that
makes these work. Just to be clear though, Fox News
has thus far been 'successful' because the U.S. has a
large mentally retarted population.
SV
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