Comments on: Pay to publish, not to read http://savethenews.us/2009/07/20/hello-world/ About the future of journalism Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:17:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bart Brouwers http://savethenews.us/2009/07/20/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Bart Brouwers Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:06:35 +0000 http://savethenews.us/?p=1#comment-16 But isn't this already the case? If you want to copy and republish an article in its original state, it means you will have to pay the copyrights (in most countries, that is). So most people (and organisations like Google News) don't republish and just link to the article. Or just quote parts of it. If what Jyri says will happen, then that still would be the way to react, I guess... But isn’t this already the case? If you want to copy and republish an article in its original state, it means you will have to pay the copyrights (in most countries, that is). So most people (and organisations like Google News) don’t republish and just link to the article. Or just quote parts of it. If what Jyri says will happen, then that still would be the way to react, I guess…

]]> By: Hanna Sistek http://savethenews.us/2009/07/20/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Hanna Sistek Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:02:42 +0000 http://savethenews.us/?p=1#comment-4 This is interesting, the idea that people will pay to republish news in the future. But also hard to believe that private individuals would actually do that. The reason there is so much sharing now is because it's simple, and for free. And there is also a pitfall with the whole idea to let somebody else decide which news source one should trust. How can you know that your friends are making the right decisions. Why outsource the decision making of your own news intake? I guess because of lack of time. But that just means that an elite, who has the time to browse the web more carefully, will be in charge of what people are reading. Like a node that the large information flow passes through. Or like what editors are doing today already. Evaluating news. I guess in that light it would be just like choosing your own editors. After all, today most of us don't know who are making these choices for us, in mainstream media. This is interesting, the idea that people will pay to republish news in the future. But also hard to believe that private individuals would actually do that. The reason there is so much sharing now is because it’s simple, and for free.

And there is also a pitfall with the whole idea to let somebody else decide which news source one should trust. How can you know that your friends are making the right decisions. Why outsource the decision making of your own news intake? I guess because of lack of time. But that just means that an elite, who has the time to browse the web more carefully, will be in charge of what people are reading. Like a node that the large information flow passes through. Or like what editors are doing today already. Evaluating news. I guess in that light it would be just like choosing your own editors. After all, today most of us don’t know who are making these choices for us, in mainstream media.

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