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Separating the Journalism Baby From the Newspapers Bathwater

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Frankly, I'd like to see even more money invested. Why not fund four times as many-- put 200,000 investigative journalists to work, of all ages? They will scour the nation to find quality stories that make a difference.

The top 10,000 or 20,000 journalists should get bonuses and the least read, least value producing journalists should get demotions or lose their jobs.

Crowdsourcing and related bottom up approaches wil be used to assess who are the best and worst achievers as well as measures of money saved or developed, based on discovering waste, corruption, getting out new ideas, etc. If a reporter digs up a corrupt operation that has been bilking the government of $10 billion a year. That reporter should get a big bonus, maybe $100,000, and be secure in her job for at least a few years. If a reporter is the first to really get wide coverage for a new invention that saves people millions, he should get a nice reward.

Hey, this is a new idea. It's not totally fleshed out. But it's a hell of a lot better than dumping hundreds of millions or billions into a dying, archaic industry. There may have been people who wanted to rescue the buggy whip industry. But they were misguided. It was transportation they really cared about.

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Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and site architect of OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360 AM), President of Futurehealth, Inc, inventor . He is also published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com

With his experience as architect and founder of a technorati top 100 blog, he is also a new media / social media consultant and trainer for corporations, non-profits, entrepreneurs and authors.

Rob is a frequent Speaker on the bottom up revolution, politics, The art, science and power of story, heroes and the hero's journey, Positive Psychology, Stress, Biofeedback and a wide range of subjects. He is a campaign consultant specializing in tapping the power of stories for issue positioning, stump speeches and debates, and optimizing tapping the power of new media. He recently retired as organizer of several conferences, including StoryCon, the Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story and The Winter Brain Meeting on neurofeedback, biofeedback, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology. See more of his articles here and, older ones, here.

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Existing news organizations could go digital by Don Smith on Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:22:58 PM

News Media should be non-profit by Scott Baker on Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:20:18 PM

No more newspapers?!!!!! by Suzi on Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:29:56 PM

'Missing the problem here. It's not format but context. by Richard Lee on Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:27:07 PM

Continued by Richard Lee on Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:24:46 PM

newspapers by thomas unger on Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:47:09 PM

How about restoring the free market? by Peter Duveen on Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 at 10:31:40 PM

Sounds great to me, Rob by Perry Logan on Sunday, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:59:03 AM

Right-on, Rob! by Bia Winter on Sunday, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:41:41 AM

"it will be easy to develop software that discounts votes" by Bingada Bing on Sunday, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:44:18 AM