Drones... the future of journalism?!?!

[shcrane71]

Rupert Murdoch lost his News of the World "news"paper over phone hacking. Tampering with an individual's personal phone in order to get the story, in the UK, is not condoned. But what if the surveillance equipment wasn't the personal property of the target? It appears that in the US, our journalism schools are now teaching students how to conduct surveillance via drones.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1835533/why-flying-drones-are-the-future-of-journalism

[LiberalEsto]

1. If everone's using drones, there are going to be aerial traffic jams

and collisions.
This could get interesting.

[shcrane71]

2. Then there will need to be legislation or regulation in order to limit access

to the sky. It will be interesting. We're entering a total surveillance state.

[LiberalEsto]

4. But what about flying model plane buffs?

I wonder if they will be outlawed too.

If model planes are outlawed, only outlaws will have model planes

[shcrane71]

9. LMAO... There's always going to be that ONE ne'er-do-well who

refuses to give up his contraband model plane.

[Octafish]

3. Why not? The presstitutes already are stenographers for Uncle Sam.

Journalism via press release. Why not go whole hog, so to speak?

[RZM]

5. Before helicopters, news organizations didn't do much flying

Now they do. The same thing will happen as drone technology advances. it will become cost-effective for news organizations to ditch their choppers and rely on cheaper, unmanned aircraft.

It will probably actually the paparazzi who take advantage of this first, since their budgets are smaller to begin with and they rely more on stalking and surreptitious observation. Expect unmanned aircraft at the next J-Lo wedding.

[randome]

6. Didn't Spider Jerusalem's world have something like that?

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Well for back country wild land fires

I can see some potential, especially if it's shared with your fire department.

Downside, at times you get to physically get there to talk to people.

[raouldukelives]

8. Paparazzi must be salivating. nt

[shcrane71]

10. I wonder how small they can make these drones, and how

good microphones will be getting.