01/02/2009

More than an thousand cars burnt out in France and the problem of online journalism

Since a few years new years eve is the year in which people burn their cars to get a new one from their insurance or get their car fixed and burnt because some kidz don't know better than to burn other people's cars (the saddest thing is that it are cars from poor people like them because the rich hide their cars on new years eve). The really poor people can get up to 4000 Euro's from a fund for the victims of terrorism, those that have some better paid work and the middle class have to repay it all by their own.

In the Belgian newspaper De Morgen we read about 440 cars that were burnt out that night

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In the french newspapers we read the following thing about last night burnt out cars

First the 440 cars is only for the Region of Paris (and most of them in the ghetto's (called banlieus) around it.

and this source says this "1.147 véhicules ont été incendiés au cours de la nuit de la Saint-Sylvestre 2008-2009, contre 878 durant la même période de l'année précédente, selon un bilan définitif «des faits vérifiés», publié jeudi soir par le ministère de l'Intérieur. Soit une hausse de plus de 30,6 % par rapport à 2007" It says that there are 1147 cars burnt that night, which is an increase with 30%

So what is the problem here with online journalism and which makes it less trustful

1. The online newspapers around here don't go updating and changing their online stories. Once published they are just archived and let alone just alike articles in the newspapers. This is totally wrong attitude. Online articles should live and be updated and given more links, information, changes and corrections. It is only after some time online that you can close a version. It is also this changing nature of your articles that makes it interesting to keep on reading.

2. The online editions don't control the web permanently and don't google the facts that they are publishing. So they just trust one source and don't do the double checking. So one makes mistakes. The difference between a lie and a truth is sometimes a word (like paris instead of France

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 The newspapers are sacking a great number of journalists and editors this year but they say that this won't have any influence on their quality. This is not possible. You need human eyes and hands to make quality content.

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