Bring Current News and Vicky BACK TO CURRENT TV! (Sign Petition Please..)

the current i watch today is not the current i watched yesterday, and for that reason i watch it less. i know that things must change, and i do like how legit infomania is getting and other such shows, but i do miss vicky, i miss the original real user submitted tv, because its hardly that anymore. lately they've been recycling oooold pods, while putting in the stations own original programming, but the peoples voice is heard far less now, even on the website we're pushed below the episode links. its a saad thing

I'll add that I have noticed what I believe to be a degradation of Current, a change in policy regarding articles posted by members.

I've personally posted a number of articles which never showed up in any category and received very few visits. At the same time, articles sit for days on the main page.

If Current is moving away from the voice of the people, we should move away from Current and start and support a new venture which gives unfettered voice to us.

What say you Current?

On the one hand you have cliques like the one adamsmithfreedom belongs to that fight for causes whether or not it is news and on the other you have the pressure of entertaining stories that are popular whether or not they are news.

How about adhering more to the time tested principles of journalism that have been worked out to settle the dispute?

The kinds of things they teach like how to write a good headline, putting in a good lede, the who, what, when, where, why, how and getting the facts straight in the news by verifying them from multiple sources

http://www.newscloud.com/read/Principles_of_Journalism_Citizen_and_Otherwise?ski...

Unfortunately no one seems to think that Accuracy, Thoroughness, Fairness, Transparency or Independence is important anymore.

I'm all for more member participation in the Current TV network, but if people want the right to have their views expressed more broadly then they also have to take the responsibility to improve the quality of that expression in order for it to qualify as news.

How many times is the same post going to be reposted by different people? I think there are other more important news items that need to be seen, and is this really news? Personally, while the hourly news was OK, it still essentially covered the same thing we now see on the homepage carousel which basically caters to the same members. All we ever see are the same few people (the petition writer of this is one of them) with the exception of a couple up on the homepage carousel or featured elsewhere regardless of what they post here. It still wasn't fair the other way either. It doesn't matter what format is used here. There will still be cliques who will vote up each other whether what they vote up is news or not, and some staff members who will place their favorites over the others.

NumLock,

Is it just me or is there something kind of creepy about the term "twitterbot?"

There are enough flesh-and-blood intelligences twittering at me all day as it is...so now I need an ARTIFICIAL intelligence doing so?

At least it is an update with some reassurances that the problem is being addressed.

"Teaching Vicky how to speak took a lot of human hand holding. We’ll be pulling more stories at a time, and we’ll be attempting to stick to a much faster-paced turnaround. This means, more community submissions on TV."

It would be cool to have a tribute to her efforts though and maybe you could do more with her on Facebook to help her live on and attract more members.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiWTukW6wco

I've had experiences with trying to get text to speech synthesizers to work for voice overs in my animation so I know how hard it is to get them to sound intelligible and speak clearly enough to be understood. Vicky was cute and all but that wasn't the crux of the issue.

"It’s certainly taken longer than we’ve hoped, but bringing back community-submitted stories to TV is definitely on our (long) list of things to do — we’ve got some serious work to do to get things running smoothly."

That is what we have been waiting for all these months

"We have a PhD on staff named DrGary who will be working on a vastly improved classifier and channel-based scoring system, but this is pretty involved work.”

I guess there is no rushing PhDs while they are attempting to pile it higher and deeper since as they say "Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage amongst his books for to you kingdoms and their armies are mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger." and he'll get the work done when he is ready, not when the members want it on their schedule.

"Nothing has been finalized, but we’ll let you know as things develop"

I hope so since it is what makes Current what it is to have member participation

What about the comments on Tv?

Eh, i still would like to know what everyone of the community thinks about it, so just keep voting it up, anyway..!

Mario, what purposely lead you and the Curent staff to change Current from the very beginning? Several months, that is...

What about the comments as well, being featured upon Tv?

If you are hellbent on not bringing Vicky back there should be at least some kind of acknowledgment or Current celebration for her and how much we loved her!

So, when exactly will you return the Current News then?