“Information is now a public service as much as it’s a commodity,” he said. “It should be thought of the same way as education, health care. It’s one of the things you need to operate a civil society, and the market isn’t doing it very well.”Laid off journos are being redeployed by guerrilla startup news services aimed at covering very local news in order to keep corrupt local pols and businesses in the community spotlight.
- from NYT, 11/19/2008, Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Oooh - I like this: News as a public service
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