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what I’m really mourning here is the death of independent media: opinions that aren’t created as clickbait, hot takes that aren’t manufactured for views, and recommendations that aren’t paid for—ultimately I’m looking for people I can trust.
The Internet needs curators.
intellectual freedom issues
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
When we talked about citizen journalism at YouTube, 2007, 2008, 2009, we were thinking Arab Spring—the idea that citizens with camera phones would be able to tell you a truth and give you opinions and access to realities that were often ignored or censored by government, the handful of media outlets that got most of the distribution and establishme... See more
Alex Kantrowitz • Homebrew VC Hunter Walk Talks Twitter, TikTok, and Tech in the Time of Biden
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue altogether.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/the-experts-vs-the-amateurs-a-tug-of-war-over-the-future-of-media/.
Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
We don't really need 100 podcasts or newsletters discussing the same issue from a minutely different perspective - that is what editorial is for. The independence economy also prioritises those who can best promote themselves, or perhaps create the most eye catching content
George Howard • Web3 As An Interdependent Economy: A Conversation With Mat Dryhurst
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman • 15 highlights
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