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Laypeople who diligently read journal papers or chase down conspiracy theories should get free pizza. It’s a form of community service. Even if they get their interpretations wrong (quite likely since even experts fail a lot that way) they help highlight the right concerns.
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This is actually a meaningful mission for a reformed idea of journalism. But the media has gotten too used to easy work in the firm of access journalism and being lucratively captured by one institution or another.
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“Simply by talking to one another, we create wealth. Any child watching a TV show should be paid because he or she is creating wealth for the community.” Good old McLuhan in 1964
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It’s a principle of auditing. Layers of review. Even if the person doesn’t have the technical expertise, they often have a unique background that facilitates insights. Someone reviewed one of my papers & said it should’ve been a movie. In retrospect I can say why she said that.
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