Loomio
Fri 11 Aug 2017 6:21AM

A Journalistic integrity policy

TH Tane Harre Public Seen by 104

As I try to research and reference news I find it progressively harder to find links that still work the further back in time I go.

I suggest that to be able to post something as news in New Zealand, a copy (and separate copies of all updates, should have to be held by the government in a publicly (perhaps after a week?) searchable database.

News organisations absolutely have the right to reconfigure their sites. The problem is link rot.

For example at the moment I am looking at the past articles on Thompson and Clark and (for instance) 10 out of the 15 news articles listed on Source Watch no longer exist.

Not having a backup of the articles not only allows New Zealand history to disappear, but also encourages a rewrite of history in the future.

FL

Fred Look Tue 26 Sep 2017 11:53PM

yup journalistic integrity policy is necessary
1 disestablish the herald! (joke! but they really do cross the line an a very deliberate and manipulative way) would it not be possible to make formal complaint to EC that they no longer be protected as a "news provider" and then appropriate fine placed for failing to provide a promoters statement as other campaigners are required to do?

JC

Johnny Canuck Tue 3 Oct 2017 2:17PM

While the internet has clearly changed the rules 2 the game somewhat, even we "freebooters" must work within certain established parameters of style, form, & manner of inquiry. Corporate hacks, meanwhile, sell their souls from the very start. Ethics & integrity is NOT the issue. Selling copy & claiming the HIGHEST ratings is. Fake news? #FACTCHECK - Caveat emptor .......