combatserver writes:
"While The Guardian and The New York Times reported on the NSA targeting of data leaked by popular mobile apps, independent sources produced highly-detailed articles--accompanied by source material--that paint a much broader picture of NSA capabilities and intent. Recent restrictions imposed on journalists--a result of corporate influence, editorial decisions, and threats against journalists--combined with the ease of establishing a website, might be driving a new era in journalism.
The Intercept recently announced a shift towards independent reporting with the creation of their own news outlet, free of the constraints imposed on journalists by 'Big Media' and governments. Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill have joined forces to provide the world with an alternative, perhaps blazing a path towards a fundamental change in how news is reported and distributed. SoylentNews can play a significant role in this shift towards journalistic freedom--we share many common core-ideals, and can give voice to independent news sources.
The Big Question: How will 'Big Media' and governments react to this shift in journalism?"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by linsane on Tuesday February 18 2014, @01:00PM
Not just here, but BBC, Daily mail etc are all now more worth reading for the armchair journalists and blog relateded commenters. Particularly interesting is when those writing the articles participating there too.
On an unrelated note, 2 days in and it is about time for a bitcoin article here please :-)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RobotMonster on Tuesday February 18 2014, @01:12PM
There was one yesterday; admittedly it didn't have the b-word in the subject line, so you may have missed it ;-)
MIT Students Subpoenaed Over Tidbit [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by linsane on Tuesday February 18 2014, @01:30PM
Thanks for the pointer - can get my fix now.
I'm so used to seeing an article like that have the comment count shoot through the roof which is my trigger for jumping in to have a look-see. Editors at The Other Place are evidently a lot less subtle about click bait generation or whatever the term is
(Score: 1) by RobotMonster on Tuesday February 18 2014, @01:52PM
Yeah, the Other Place loves the click-bait. I'm hoping soylent manages to have headlines and summaries that don't misrepresent TFA in the interests of sensationalism...(Apologies for the double-negative).
With regards to bitcoin stories -- it's now fairly regular for me to see bitcoin stories on the mainstream television news! (in Australia) They don't have any clue what they're talking about, but that's normal for anything involving computers on the TV...
(Score: 1) by Zwerg_Sense on Tuesday February 18 2014, @10:06PM
Have not seen any critical thinking on the BBC News site wrt GCHQ / Snowden. No article to add insightful comments to.
(Score: 1) by linsane on Wednesday February 19 2014, @12:42AM
OK, so I admit, I'm addicted to the comments on Robert Peston's blog and have been since 2007s ton/ [bbc.co.uk]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/robertpe
Its where I get my fill of econopolitics at any rate and at least one step up from the Zerohedge madness. The centre left / establishment leanings of the BBC are not going to get what you are after, I would recommend the Guardian.
(Score: 1) by Zwerg_Sense on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:40PM
Wow, tremendous amount of comments, thanks for the link!
(Score: 1) by Dopefish on Wednesday February 19 2014, @07:19AM
Why do you think we decided to launch SoylentNews? We wanted to capture the community aspect of another site we all know about, including the awesome commenting, but with a quality selection of stories and a vastly improved editorial policy.
Welcome aboard, linsane! Enjoy your stay.