[WikiEN-l] Google Starts Including Wikipedia on Its News Site

[geni]

2009/6/22 Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>:
> 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