What a promising young woman, I'm sure her parents are very proud! Sadly, it's not very hard to beat the local paper anymore. Now that we consume most of our news online for free, media companies rely entirely on ad revenue and simply can't afford to provide good local coverage. Ad-supported professional journalism just does not work for local stories that can't attract a huge audience.
Some of you have suggested Government funded news - while I agree that quality local news is a critical public good, I believe that Government intervention in the industry is dangerous. I'm confident that the free market will eventually solve this problem with a creative new business model.
Hi Sam. The social graph, interest graph, and professional graph have all been successfully mapped online. When do you believe the location graph will also be mapped at scale, and by whom?
Police dashcams and bodycams are there to protect officers as much as the public. This being said, I can totally understand why many officers aren't too thrilled about being recorded every second of their shift, and clearly in Chicago several of them have taken action. Police officers are thrown into highly stressful situations every single day, and even "good" cops will make poor decisions from time to time. I think Police dash cams are in the public's best interest, and strongly believe that citizen journalism is helping communities hold authorities accountable, but there needs to be a balance between accountability and unfair scrutiny. Once this balance is found, hopefully incidents such as those described in the article will drop significantly.
Some of you have suggested Government funded news - while I agree that quality local news is a critical public good, I believe that Government intervention in the industry is dangerous. I'm confident that the free market will eventually solve this problem with a creative new business model.