Comments on: Capitalizing on Hyperconnectivity https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/02/21/capitalizing-on-hyperconnectivity/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:14:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 By: mstem https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/02/21/capitalizing-on-hyperconnectivity/#comment-4365 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:14:57 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=1887#comment-4365 Jay Rosen has pointed out that the emergence of social, participatory media and the economic decline of newspapers are two distinct threads, intertwined, but not completely interdependent. You can be excited about one while sad about the other. And I agree wholeheartedly with your concern of “Who watches the Watchmen?” The press has served society well in questioning power, but they have also long served as gatekeepers, themselves. A balance between the crowd’s honesty and the 20th century press’s sustainability would be a nice place to get to.

I’m not sure the debate is over whether we need anyone to curate the news, but whether that someone needs to be a single news company. The generalist model where the BBC can provide the best reporting available on everything from consumer technology to China is likely broken beyond repair.

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