Huh? Reporter Calls For Copyrighting News
There is a reason why I read “The Week” – I love their style of reporting news. I also love that they summarize top national and international publications for me, leaving alone the slants each reporter has on the story or a news item they’re commenting on. To those they add their own. Its refreshing to read a publication that offers three sides of the story and lets you make up your own mind on what is going on around you.
In recent weeks a series of reporters have called for new laws that would prevent Web sites from summarizing news stories that originate elsewhere to “save” journalism. Sure enough, the profession of a journalist is not what is used to be. The invention of the Internet has made the job of a journalist almost impossible. We want news now, so reporters who used to be able to research the story before publishing it now barely have time pick up the phone to check the sources or facts before someone else scoops the news item right from them and posts it on their blog, no matter its facts, the truth the slant.
Cameras in phones now enable you to click a picture and immediately post it on your site. Now you are a news maker, and they, the professionals who till recently were able to satisfy our hunger for the “know” no longer are as viable as they once were. It is sad really, but I don’t believe that censorship is the right course of action here. More importantly, recommendations of this sort should frighten anyone who cares about a free press. And we, should be suspicious of any proposals to give someone ownership — even if temporary — over information.








































































































