By Andrew Keen
Does truth hate delay?
According to the new American website LiveNewsCameras, it does. LiveNewsCameras allows Internet viewers to look at news as it unfolds around the world. The website streams raw video footage from ABC, CBS, NBC and 150 stations from America and overseas. By disintermediating traditional journalists, LiveNewsCameras brings the news directly to the viewer. Now, when we blame the messenger for bad news, all we'll be doing is blaming ourselves.
The site's informal motto, taken from Seneca's version of Oedipus, is "veritas odit moras" (truth hates delay). But can raw streamed news - without any expert analysis - really be truthful? Or is this version of the news - in which the viewer becomes the editor - just one more example of the degeneration of the Internet into an echo chamber in which the truth simply becomes what we want it to be?
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