dublin students wikipedia experiment (1 Viewer)

[Lili Marlene]

I dunno, people might start wanting an opinion they can trust.

I'm trying to apply what's in this article in regards archaeology

http://arstechnica.com/science/news...heology-by-killing-the-antiquities-market.ars

(with the long version here: http://www.archaeology.org/0905/etc/insider.html)

to print media and the internet. Basically, there's so much rubbish out there that no one can trust any of it.

Which brings me back to peer-reviewed journals.


Someone make my argument for me, I have to get back to work

 

[UTV]

oh, and to further my rant, when the journo's have to fill up feature space, they invariably have look for more attention grabbing stories to sell units, further sapping time for actually being a journalist.

 

[nooleen]

so what we've established after 62 posts is that journos are worthless hacks.

 

[Froog]

advertisers control on average 75% of the income of newspapers as a general rule. this money is spent on space, front page, back page and middle being most expensive. the space left over from ads is what journo's have to work with. not counting feature writing, for example if theres a feature on weddings, they've sold ad's to maybe 15-20 wedding related business, dress makers, cakes and hotels etc. then there is an expectancy to have literature along with these ads to give the feature some weight. over all this might occupy a few pages, and occupy a journalist for half a day to piece together something about weddings. so basically journo's have to spend a lot of their time writing features to please the advertisers. this has sort of evolved more recently into a vague load of shit called 'lifestyle', where advertisers can fling any product at a lifestyle magazine that involves, well living. soooo... i'd consider when most writers are spending hours on features every week to satisfy the financial needs of the paper/mag, they are edited in the sense of only having half a week to do a weeks real journalism. cool tin foil hat pic by the way.

what know you of the illuminati, brother?

 

[egg_]

what know you of the illuminati, brother?

Froog, if you have the idea that print media output is never influenced by advertisers then it's you who's the nutjob

 

[Froog]

Froog, if you have the idea that print media output is never influenced by advertisers then it's you who's the nutjob

influenced sure, but not "mostly edited".

 

[IFF]

the person got a warning on wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:86.42.227.123

and withing 2 minutes of him originally doing it, a mod from wikipedia had asked him for citations http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maurice_Jarre&diff=280558753&oldid=280558491

 

[Vinnie]

it's not much use if your peers are dicks.

http://blog.bioethics.net/2009/05/merck-makes-phony-peerreview-journal/

 

[taubstumm]

influenced sure, but not "mostly edited".

time to get your chomsky on, ma fren...

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent[/ame]