For those of us still thinking about the burgeoning era of transparency enabled by the web, I present 2 items from the May 25th edition of NPR's On the Media.
First, an interview with Jason Calacanis, who advocates that full text and/or audio of interviews be made available. Sure, why not? I see unedited content slowly becoming the norm.
Second, a piece exposing the editing that goes into NPR news programming. Sound editors remove pauses, "umms", and other missteps. It made me feel better about myself to know that people really aren't as articulate as they seem.
Very interesting reads Brad. Calacanis had a quote from the first article which really got funky fresh with my jive turkey (huh?).
"I think that maybe you’re underestimating the audience. And I think journalists are a little pretentious in that matter. And perhaps, you know, public radio ones are the most ... where they think that their editing ability trumps my ability as a listener to interpret this or understand what you’re doing. I’m not an idiot. Give me the raw material."
Obviously this quote is aimed at journalistic media, but for me, it applies just as much to individually created content, and to be honest, people's entire Web 2.0 persona. Dont spin it, clean it, or hype it - just give it to me straight and I'll do the digesting. I love it.