News Site Puts Out A Call For News
Here's a screen grab from the Huffington Post today. The top story? "Find us a top story!"
They ask you to spot "any major differences between the original senate bill and the compromise." It's like those touchscreen games in bars where you spot the differences between two photos of a bikini-clad hottie sunbathing on the beach--only it's with a 1,400 page trillion dollar stimulus package! "Hey, I don't recall seeing that $3 million for "janitorial restoration" of the Native American History Museum in the original version..." Ding!
Shouldn't news organizations be telling us what's in the bill?
On the bright side, this does encourage citizens to become involved in the legislative process once again. Come home from a long days work, crack a beer and put on your citizen journalist detective hat!
They ask you to spot "any major differences between the original senate bill and the compromise." It's like those touchscreen games in bars where you spot the differences between two photos of a bikini-clad hottie sunbathing on the beach--only it's with a 1,400 page trillion dollar stimulus package! "Hey, I don't recall seeing that $3 million for "janitorial restoration" of the Native American History Museum in the original version..." Ding!
Shouldn't news organizations be telling us what's in the bill?
On the bright side, this does encourage citizens to become involved in the legislative process once again. Come home from a long days work, crack a beer and put on your citizen journalist detective hat!
posted by Matt Bors at
6:46 PM
3 Comments:
This encourages cranks in their pajamas.
Genius. I'm always amazed at people who post all their crap on my-book or face-space. You're essentially placing your content on their system so they can make ad money off of you. And on top of that, it's all closed off so you have to have an account to view anything anyway.
And now, the Huffington is doing the same thing. Give us news and we'll post it on our site and make money off of it...and maybe give you a by-line on it somewhere...with a link to your myspace.
Sumit, that was a very insightful comment. Why did you give it to Matt's site for free? ;-)
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