Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Fact checking

The lack of fact checking in independent online journalism is a problem that needs to be addressed, the founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, warned at SXSW, the interactive music and film festival. He said, "The mainstream models fact check - in theory - but in citizen media, it's publish first and then hope that people fact check. This doesn't happen much and it's a problem...people should remember that [facts] need to be checked and need scepticism." Newmark also argued that newspapers need to spend more on investigative journalism if they are to reverse declining circulations.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree. Wasn't it Donald Rumsfeld who once said "comment is free, but facts are sacred".

Librarybod said...

No, that was C P Scott. A former editor of the Guardian . . .

Anonymous said...

I was just trying to prove the point. I knew it was CP Scott. Honest.

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