CJR's Take on Crowdsourcing (Spoiler Alert: They're Kind of Cool With It)

What has been called a ‘media plantation‘, Huffington Post has asked their readers (who are already reading for free anyway) to pore over the 736-page stimulus bill to ‘see if there’s anything interesting in there’.

CJR’s Megan Garber writes:

It makes perfect sense to have readers help out-with the stimulus package, in particular, whose content is as significant as it is dense. “People want to see these things come to light,” says Matt Palevsky, who coordinates distributed reporting for the HuffPost, and worked on the stimulus project.

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