On: Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse

[tlrobinson]

> As if people will just wander onto their site, and as long as they can't find the exit they'll be stuck there forever.

The digital equivalent of casinos' lack of windows.

[Steko → tlrobinson]

Not linking to a company described in a news article can be annoying but it's not always some casino mentality code they have against outlinking to maximize internal pageviews -- in many cases it's also journalism trying to hold onto some standards of not just being a shill for the interview subject.

[TeMPOraL → Steko]

Not linking to a company described requires a very conscious effort. It's obvious that when you want to tell people "hey, look at X", you want to point people towards X somehow. If you don't do this, then it means you have some ulterior motive for not doing that.

[Zikes → Steko]

On Wikipedia they call it citing sources. Journalism would certainly do very well to practice that.

[davidgerard → Steko]

The BBC somehow survives now that it's actually linking to papers referenced, entities discussed in the article, etc.

[lclarkmichalek → davidgerard]

Well being state funded probably helps in that regard

[davidgerard → lclarkmichalek]

I'd think that would work against the claim being asserted - that external links affect neutrality - given how closely people watch the BBC for any possible bias and berate it for assumed bias (with or without cause).

[alttab → tlrobinson]

That and losing money doesn't look entertaining through a window