NYU undergraduate Cody Brown ambitiously launches Kommons.com in a few weeks as a platform to get the public to talk to each other. His view is that the "trustee media" era is ending and a more "direct media" era is upon us.
In other words, the public can talk to itself.
"News is important. It’s so important that leaving it to a group of people in an office downtown is and has always been irresponsible," he writes.
Rather, he says the technology now exists to permit that many-to-many conversation about what's important, including the research and editing of content to ensure its fairness and accuracy.
In other words, the public can talk to itself.
"News is important. It’s so important that leaving it to a group of people in an office downtown is and has always been irresponsible," he writes.
Rather, he says the technology now exists to permit that many-to-many conversation about what's important, including the research and editing of content to ensure its fairness and accuracy.
