Real News – The Importance of Open Source Journalism

Video / Visuals by Stanka / written by Alen Mischael Vukelić

Real News – The Importance of Open Source Journalism

How can a journalist be truly independent? What is the best way to bring you the objective story? Does objectivity exist? How close can you come, and what is the best way?

In a world of increasingly centralized news reporting, lawmakers are more and more concerned about freelanced journalists, who with the help of cheap technology, broadcast their information and researches out into the world without any restrictions and censorship.

This whole ‘concern’, governments say, has no other aim but to ‘regulate’ the ‘professional’ output of journalism, to satisfy the high standards set by the ‘consumer’ of those reports.

Well, as we all know too well, those kinds of regulations serve to protect the leadership of unwanted investigations – made by real journalists – rather than protecting the public of bad journalism.

Since if this were true, the lawmakers would have banned the yellow press decades ago, which they – apparently – never did for obvious reasons: to keep the public occupied with insignificant dumbed-down content of no value at all.

The main purpose is and always was to keep the public’s attention away from the real news and not to give them the real story behind politics and policy making. I have selected this video for the reason to show you why open source journalism and the alternative media have a key function in the awakening of largely asleep and apathetic public crowds.

James Corbett giving a very inspiring and important presentation in Lille, France, covering topics like:

• What is a journalist? (Can a 17-year-old with a $5 website – be a journalist?)
• A brief history of journalism
• The language of open source journalism
• What is driving the change in journalism?
• What is open source journalism?
• What is NOT open source journalism?

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