Can open news be quality news? There is a great deal of ‘quality’ news on the internet, however, as discussed within paragraph 18 there are issues with priorities of what’s seen on the internet. In terms of ‘quality’ I think stories can still have quality to them, but unlike the news like BBC the reliability of the source can be questioned, due to the fact that anyone can become a journalist through websites like indymedia. We don’t know who is writing the stories, and the stories aren’t going through the same processes that BBC for example would do.
Then there is the factor of them being edited.
The fact the news is edited can raise the question is open news ever really open? With all the information, stories etc being on the internet in front of all online users they can easily be edited and changed into different formats. Therefore although people may see this as open news, there are still restrictions in how they are actually expressed over the internet.
Does this mean that 'open' news is mirroring what is going on with other types of media, i.e. gatekeeping?
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Open news was not 'edited news' in the sense that there was a hierarchy gatekeeping content. Rather, the notion is that people making the 'news' post accounts of it online.
ReplyDeleteSince the early days, many alt.news forums have had to engage in some gatekeeping because otherwise, quite a lot of ill-informed comment would flood out all the well informed info/comment. (Wikis have had to instigate a similar process whereby it is no longer possible for just anybody to post and alter any topic whatsoever). It's the usual problem of 'junk-n-jerks' getting in on the act and bringing contributions down to the lowest-common-denominator.