[Ipg-smz] Poll: Are Bylines necessary?
Steve Wexler
stevewexler.wordslingers at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 20:35:48 UTC 2018
While we are supposed to be without bias, we are the sum of our education
and experiences and they will shape our reporting regardless of how fair
and balanced we try to be.
I think attribution(s) and credibility are essential elements of
journalism, and the absence of bylines deprives a work of both.
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 15:25, Dana Blankenhorn <danablankenhorn at gmail.com>
wrote:
> In general, it's stupid.
>
> What the site is saying that if you know who is writing something you'll
> associate them with past stands and either support or discount them without
> reading further.
>
> They'll figure that out after reading a few pieces anyway. Writing styles
> are pretty idiosyncratic.
>
> No one is getting paid on this blog so credit isn't an issue. But I don't
> like it. It's so damned easy to create troll armies with anonymity, and in
> a community site like this one a small group of 5-10 who just agree to
> agree with one another can constitute one.
>
> This site looks like it has just started, and that it has a clear
> editorial mission to tone down rhetoric in the name of comity. That's also
> stupid.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 2:56 PM John Coggeshall <john at coggeshall.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> So I wanted to ask the opinion of some people totally outside of the
>> particular realm I'm talking about, who still would be pretty much
>> authorities on the subject.
>>
>> Recently I got involved in a hyper-local media site called 12 Mile
>> (http://12mile.com). It's a community run site, we accept contributors
>> from anyone who wants to write save they meet the editorial guidelines
>> (publicly posted). But one sort of unique thing is by default, we don't
>> publish the author of the pieces unless they want us to.
>>
>> I don't know if any of you have ever been involved in local politics
>> before, but it's nasty. During the recent elections it was just a
>> mud-slinging contest and torn the whole community apart. 12 Mile was
>> born out of the idea that content and people aren't the same thing, and
>> ideas should be measured on their cited references and not on who wrote
>> them.
>>
>> Unsurprisingly, this has caused a number of vocal outbursts within the
>> community -- mostly it seems from people who appear to be against
>> institutions where the facts aren't painting them to be the monsters
>> their opponents would like them to be and in general have been the worst
>> offenders when it comes to the mud-slinging. So far we've held the line
>> firm that we don't disclose authors or "owners" but I wanted to hear
>> some perspectives of people without a horse in the race. I don't think
>> cries for "We can't trust this piece if we don't know who wrote it" to
>> be legitimate myself, thoughts?
>>
>> References:
>>
>> Editorial Guidelines: https://12mile.com/editorial-guidelines/
>>
>> 12 Mile Philosophy: https://12mile.com/the-philosophy-of-12-mile/
>>
>> What say you? Is this a legitimate approach or not?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
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