Comments on: Twitter Vote, Video The Vote, and Voter Supression Wiki keep votes intact with citizen journalism http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/11/04/twitter-vote-video-the-vote-and-voter-supression-wiki-keep-votes-intact-with-citizen-journalism/ Technology news Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:30:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ken http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/11/04/twitter-vote-video-the-vote-and-voter-supression-wiki-keep-votes-intact-with-citizen-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-144264 Ken Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:56:18 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=8324#comment-144264 Volume and quality aren't interchangeable. You can also say early access and publishing of unsubstantiated information like exit polls in 2000 an hour before the precincts closed in the Florida panhandler caused lasting damage to the Country. What has happened is we have the ability to have the reporting of unsubstantiated facts instantly bypassing the scrutiny and fact checking you used to be able to take for granted. Having journalism shaping and influencing the course of the story, as many feel has happened in this election, and letting rumors spread to millions in a short period of time is new, but hardly innovative. I'll have to call the local media and ask how many of their journalists are citizens. Volume and quality aren’t interchangeable. You can also say early access and publishing of unsubstantiated information like exit polls in 2000 an hour before the precincts closed in the Florida panhandler caused lasting damage to the Country.

What has happened is we have the ability to have the reporting of unsubstantiated facts instantly bypassing the scrutiny and fact checking you used to be able to take for granted. Having journalism shaping and influencing the course of the story, as many feel has happened in this election, and letting rumors spread to millions in a short period of time is new, but hardly innovative.

I’ll have to call the local media and ask how many of their journalists are citizens.

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