I was very surprised, pleasantly so, to see the New York Times adopt the FireDogLake/TalkingPointsMemo model for group journalism:
Let us know, using the comments box below, what you think is interesting in the report and the other documents — and please be specific, citing page numbers and paragraphs along with your observations.
(h/t Greg Mitchell)
But who will fact check the readers? That’s what I’m worried about.
Update. The next logical step is this:
Let us know, using the comments box below, what you think is factually incorrect in this Alessandra Stanley column — and please be specific.
The Bearded Blogger
The “no comments” linky thing in this new post seems appropriate as part of the message. What else is there to say?
The Bearded Blogger
Shite, I meant my previous comment for the other thread, the one about Obama having to move right
PeakVT
I don’t understand what is being done here. How can references to facts possibly outweigh the Villager consensus?
DougJ
How can references to facts possibly outweigh the Villager consensus?
Good question.
Ash Can
Sounds like the NYT has completely outsourced its editing and fact-checking. For free, yet.
Zifnab
@Ash Can: You can’t outsource it if you weren’t doing it to begin with.
That said, I don’t really care how they do their fact checking. I’ll be satisfied if they actually issue corrections when a reader notes common facts a reporter/editor has totally muddled.
Tom65
I’ll edit their paper when they send me a fat paycheck.
YellowJournalism
Anyone else feel that all this so-called interactivity is kind of killing the integrity of print, electronic, and broadcast media? (Okay, what’s left of it.) This just reminds me of the i-reports that CNN started, which are really nothing more than i-spoutmygoddamnopinion rather than actual “reporting”. It takes away from the real reporting, editing, and fact-checking these organizations are supposed to be doing. It just makes all those in charge of the MSM seem so lazy and incompetant. At this point, wouldn’t it be cheaper to pay for monkeys to sit at keyboards?
Or do they…
Brachiator
@YellowJournalism:
Killing?
It’s dead, Jim.
ricky
Why did Ms. Stanley constantly refer to Mr. Conkite by his middle name, Walter? Everyone else called him Uncle.
Quicksand
I think the NYT is making too much work for themselves. Let me propose this alternative formulation:
Let us know, using the comments box below, what you think is factually correct in this Alessandra Stanley column — and please be specific.
mike
so obvious, and yet so awesome
¡El Gato Negro!
The update is hilarious, but really, how much bandwidth does the Times have?