Make your own newspaper from independent sources #fivefilters #media

Posted on | November 11, 2010 | No Comments

A group of developers/hackers lead by Keyvan Minoukadeh has set out to develop a service application – FiveFilters.org – that will enable the public to get non-corporate news-coverage of contemporary news topics – by easily hacking corporate media itself. In practice, the application helps you scan a physical corporate newspaper clipping via your webcam and find related news stories online using non-corporate news sources.

They write: “Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky describe the media as businesses which sell a product (readers) to other businesses (advertisers). In their propaganda model of the media they point to five ‘filters’ which determine what we read in the newspapers and see on the television. These filters produce a very narrow view of the world that is in line with government policy and business interests.”

As an alternative, this application will lead readers towards the vast resource of uncompromised, non-corporate news on the web:

“The aim of this project is to encourage people to start exploring the world of non-corporate online news, websites which avoid the five filters of the propaganda model. We have tried to make these sources of news more accessible by making available web applications allowing users to find, select and print stories in the format of a newspaper. We hope these applications will also be useful for authors and publishers to more easily distribute their work.”

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