About NYC Media Bypass

NYC Media Bypass is an experiment to see how narrowly the line between media content generators (events and people typically referred to as "newsmakers") and information consumers such as you and I, can be drawn at a grassroots level here on the web.

Using a process of direct press release review and other forms of raw content posted to the web involving both mundane and dramatic events, NYC Media Bypass hopes to inject a different dimension to the regular news cycle.

NYC Media Bypass relies exclusively on primary sources to generate its content. The goal is to eliminate any reference to standard media, mainstream or otherwise. The resources and technology exist today that many entities, police, legal, private, and otherwise, can speak directly to the public if they so choose.

As an absolute baseline, NYC Media Bypass systematically reviews and regurgitates press releases by various bodies such as police, fire, and district attorney offices, adding appropriate depth and side links where appropriate or interesting to do so, to other directly reviewable material related to each entry.

Secondarily, NYC Media Bypass believes that with the proliferation of cell phone cameras and other consumer media devices, that video and photographs of incidents generated randomly throughout New York City can be collected and conveyed by anyone. The facts surrounding each incident don't always need to be absolutely known, but the occurrence of activity can be documented and reported and perhaps with added depth by reader contributions later. First person accounts as posted via Twitter, social networking site, and media accounts like You Tube, are culled aggressively in this respect.

NYC Media Bypass relies upon and encourages those individuals associated with any story or event mentioned at this blog, to add depth by making sure to post their comment. This website and blog bypass the media and can be a refreshing way to tell others what you know to add depth, sympathy, or condemnation to each developing story. Please do not hesitate to contribute and set the record straight directly in your own words.

My name is David Pinero and I have long been interested in online publishing and all of the dynamics that go along with it. While I typically enjoy writing and developing publishing software (this very website is built using my own Battle Blog engine), this project is a departure in that it focuses on the exercise of content gathering and sharing at direct and/or street level.

• For information on how to contact me, please visit the contact page.
• To participate more in this grand experiment by voting content up or down, register here.