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why would a person want to know what happened to another person?
Some believe that when trying to solve problems, it's important to restate both the problem and the motivation-- what's the problem here? is this a problem? why is this a problem to begin with? and so on...
Well, what about The News? Most 'crisis of The News' articles have focused on the broad fear: "On-no! How will we find out about what's going on if there are no reporters". The news organizations could stand to better restate not only the problem they face, but the motivations for why they exist in the first place. Rather than asking how will The News and reporting work online-- asking a more broad question about reporting in general-- "why would one person want to know what happened to another person?". Perhaps by exploring the many answers to this question we can find creative solutions for the relevance of modern high-quality reporting and news organizations on the web today .
I would really love to hear other answers but mine would be 'global fairness.' In learning about how others are treated we learn how we should be treated. When we find any new information contradictory to old information we can express this violation through sympathy (perhaps vicariously through people in journalistic photos) or even react with some support be it time, financial or simply 'liking' the story to help popularize the issue. Maybe then, news organizations be more closely tied to easy arm-chair activism platforms in the case of issues like natural disasters. -- are there other examples of this?
What do you think?
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