Twitter V.Newspapers/CBC Content

If I met Chris Anderson in real life I really don't think we would be friends. Personally, and I hope that I'm not in the minority in this- I do not want my news to come from a friend or neighbor. I don't trust the grapevine. There's a game called telephone where those playing sit in a circle and the first player invents a phrase then whispers the phrase to the player sitting next to him who then whispers the phrase to the person next them and so forth. The point of the game is to see the difference between the starting message and what the message becomes when it's been strung through a series of ears and whispers. Typically the message has been completely changed. Why would we play telephone with the news? As it is I try to be slightly skeptical of mainstream media, be aware of biases but by reading news blogs and twitter accounts it's like asking for their opinions on the news not the news. I don't want that. I checked out Wired News and here are their leading headlines: "Judge Orders Cops to Stop Harassing Superheroes", "Kryptos Artist Launches Website to Receive Solutions", and "Boast the Most Perfect Roast Turkey". At the bottom of the page was the only headline that looked like actual news "New Afghan War Plan: 'Awe and Shock'" which I decide to take a look at. Mostly the article (written by Spencer Ackerman- a qualified journalist who once worked for The New Republic) dealt with the use of tanks in Afghanistan. The article quoted The Washington Post and mentioned a CNN interview. I don't understand how Chris Anderson can say newspapers and media are a barrier when they fuel his own website.

As far as the "How the CBC Thinks about Content" it's a very idealistic view. I wish that's how the media worked but it just doesn't. Newspapers and news shows work for a demographic that they will try to appeal to. If they're trying to sell papers that people will read then they will write what people will read. There's no perfect news source.