Tracking Reporters

There is some great though on the issue of tracking reporters during the campaign.

There is a real need for accountability to rebuild trust in our political system. I am inclined to leave pure media criticism to the pros and stick to what netizens can do best, compete against the reporters themselves. Cover the candidates, campaigns, issues, interests and the media. If the goal is just tracking reporters it will boil down to cynicism. If the goal is tracking issues and actions, a diverse account results, and tracking reporters will be a positive by-product.

Allow first posts to break news, domain experts to fact check, collaborative editing to provide a broader review and collaborative filtering to bring to light and sustain important issues. This is what we do best in blogspace. Compete and complement traditional media to keep it in check.