Complete video at: fora.tv Wikipedia co-creator Jimmy Wales debates internet cultural critic Andrew Keen on the fate of print journalism in the digital age. —– Web 2.0: Amateur Hour or Mass-ive Knowledge? A debate with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and author Andrew Keen. In today’s self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated and anyone with an opinion can post a video on YouTube, change an entry on Wikipedia or publish reviews on Yelp, we increasingly turn to the collective intelligence of large numbers of people. Should we rely on the “wisdom of the crowds,” trusting that they are smarter than the expert few? Or is Web 2.0 weakening traditional media to the point where we only have opinion and chaos? – The Commonwealth Club of California Jimmy Donal “Jimbo” Wales (born August 7, 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama) is the founder, board member and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates the Wikipedia project, and several other wiki projects, including Wiktionary and Wikinews. He is also the co-founder, along with Angela Beesley, of the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. Andrew Keen is a Silicon Valley author, broadcaster and entrepreneur whose provocative book Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture was recently acclaimed by The New York Times’ Michiko Kakutani as “shrewdly argued” and written “with acuity and passion.” Chronicle, a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition and …
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ihouvanje …Well said.
MSM in America just try to rile up people to keep their ratings up.
I remember this year, the news was reporting how bad Korea was, and every day it was getting worse, until it almost seemed like a war would be inevitable.
Then all of a sudden, not a word…..
What happened? Michael Jackson died.
The media almost started a war that was nonexistent, and as far as I am concerned MJ saved us from that.
You cannot look at this situation, between the traditional press and todays citizen journalism on the internet. When your comparing it to US media. US media is the most messed up media other then North Korea and some other countries that dictate and control their people.
The American media is flawed completely and there is no other media like it.
Many print versions of publications have long had their web-based counterparts carrying the same news, so is it a matter of people turning away from print media or from mainstream publications in general, whether in print, broadcast or online?
It’s clear that people are getting more disillusioned with the pro-establishment bias in mainstream media and are turning to alternative media, whether in print, broadcast or online.
News papers , and the mainstream media, why there failing?, because people can see that these organizations are partners with government, is spinning the lie, and truth, that is a good idea of what it is, and there is more informative alternative media out there with consistancy, and they not build on 100% agenda against informing the masses on what is going on in the world, such as R.T., a infomative new source, and English Algezzera, Amy Goodman/I Wan’t Democracy Now, and “The Real News”.
It was actually a number of items that has lead to killing print journalism; I actually feel the peak of print media was the early 1920s; shortly after radio came out and had periodic news updates; then came the newsreel in the 1930s before movies; by the early 1950s Television allowed people to hear and see the news without leaving home; the 1960s-70s didn’t have any big developments, but the ’80s brought 24-hour Cable News, then the Internet in the 90s, and now Google/Yahoo news in the 2000s.
have faith in the market
The argument of Keen goes beyond the corporate media. He`s talking about the survival of the professionalism that goes along with journalism. If the Internet takes over the whole information, true or false, who is going to pay the journalists to verify the facts? That`s a huge issue, and I`m not even talking about piracy, respect of authorship, anonymity, etc.
Emelina, this has happened since the beginning of time and will never end.. sorry to say: printing out papers, scaling down subject matters and leaving opinions based on how much text room and/or photo room you have (additionally, leaving that freedom up to corporate conglams) will NOT change anything but yet once again keep people more silent.
print media in dire straits.. oh poor things..
sorry, we’re saving trees!! which saves the wildlife who reside in those trees.. and so on and so on..
That second guy tried to sound smart, but all I heard was bullshit. He said that newspapers had value, but he didn’t mention what it was; he said amateurs couldn’t report the same truth as professionals, but didn’t explain why; he said that freeing information would destroy democracy, but didn’t say why.
In other words, he talked a whole lot but didn’t say anything.
When 5 corporations control the MSM. People realize all the stories are the same and repeated over & over again.
Journalists have turned into repeaters.
The talking heads on television are under educated, rude, constantly interrupt guests and insult.The MSM believes they are celebrities.People are tired of the prepackaged propaganda.Living in Europe has shown me just how censored the industry in all of America actually is. People want the truth, not biased opinions that hide facts and distract
The internet sure is changing the print design field. There are fewer and fewer jobs out there for print designers and I’m sure there are fewer and fewer print journalism jobs as well.
I agree with the comments below, but there seems to be some individuals (paid or just activists) who flood places with information and disinformation. The individual is left to waddle through tons of text and has to then investigate for themselves to find out if the information is false. I wish there was a place you could go to and be able to believe what they say.
Perhaps people are tired of the corporate, profit-driven junk that passes for journalism in mainstream media. Didn’t every major newspaper in the US beat the drums of war and support the invasion of Iraq? Nice going, jackasses. I’d rather listen to a 14 year-old on the internet express the truth of his/her ideas.
Glad to see that we have more than 3 major news sources to go to today!
No complaints from me!!!
Let the best news prevail! (Rather than big corp’s that buy out FCC heads of office)
Print media is a huge waste of resources, but it’s going to take time for technology to totally replace it.