{"id":930,"date":"2007-08-21T00:37:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T22:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/traditional-media-vs-internet.html"},"modified":"2007-08-21T00:50:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T22:50:50","slug":"traditional-media-vs-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Media vs Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

These days there was a little war<\/a> on the Internet in Spain when the leading TV chain in Spain, TVE, ran a show in which they showed how easy it was to vandalize Wikipedia. And what\u00b4s worse, after vandalizing some articles, the producers of the show did not even bother to correct the changes<\/a>. As Microsoft likes to point out that Open Source is not safe to use traditional media\u00b4s attack on the Internet generally centers around proving that the Internet is not a trustworthy source of information. In the meantime the value of “reliable” traditional media companies keeps shrinking. Personally I think that the world needs both, professional journalists with great integrity and the user generated content of blogs and Wikipedia. But I can understand why as journalists start feeling that their jobs are being taken by bloggers who compete with their readers attention and do not demand payment other than the occasional Google Ad would react violently and attack the Internet. In the end, this is a foolish strategy. The internet is more reliable than traditional media not because it can\u00b4t be wrong (it frequently is) but because it is self correcting. Needless to say the articles that were vandalized have by now been fixed.<\/p>\n

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These days there was a little war on the Internet in Spain when the leading TV chain in Spain, TVE, ran a show in which they showed how easy it was to vandalize Wikipedia. And what\u00b4s worse, after vandalizing some articles, the producers of the show did not even bother to correct the changes. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t