Digg

Digg is a website that allows its subscribers to vote on which stories are worth reading, by voting them up or down. Does this idea of relying on the “wisdom of crowds” reflect the current news as it is reported on traditional online news sites? My response to this is yes it does represent current news but also it disregards those stories people really don’t want to hear about.  This exercise in voting up the information readers feels needs to be known is also a great solution to an age old argument of media bias. Even though the stories are still coming from the same media outlets the dissemination of that knowledge is up to the masses.  Stories have a harder time being buried or spun a certain way since comments can now include links to unaffiliated sources and unfiltered documentation of events.  In essence Digg is a purer news provider than the original reporters, who discovered the story in the first place.