Always more information, always more accessible. We are all faced with a colossal mass of data, at every moment. Dive, swim, fish in this ocean of figures, words, images and sounds, which you, individuals who have become transmitters, help to make grow, with us. The promises of this access-to-everything era still intoxicate us, because the possibilities for a better world are real, if only through potentially universal access to information. Artificial intelligence adds to it, we begin to dream of a good use of human neurons, thanks to these ever smarter and usefully efficient tools. Today, ChatGPT-like machines are becoming media themselves. Offering quality journalism remains a challenge in this context, faced with this renewed competition and the duty to make the best use of these new technologies to be even more relevant.
Today, these algorithms divide rather than unite. The era of Twitter is one of clash, buzz and shitstorm – sorry for the anglicisms and the swear word. On the planet of social networks, the extremes carry more than nuance. With a corollary: the formation of closed spaces, in which it is easy to take pleasure, even to take refuge, sheltered from the filters.
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At the origins
How to live together in this unbridled digital world? Talking to each other involves sharing a few anchor points. Share the knowledge of certain facts, validated, verified. To question them, constantly, to question one’s perceptions and convictions, with rigor, to practice doubt constantly. Recognize that opinions may differ and find ways to express them. Give them space, in all forms, in articles, in forums, during events that allow real encounters. That’s what The weather seeks to contribute.
The origins of our newspaper go back to 1798, in Lausanne. Vaud was preparing to free itself from the Bernese yoke and mint its coins in a foundry set up in the City. There Lausanne Gazette appears two or three times a week. Twenty-eight years later, the Geneva Journal was born on the initiative of James Fazy and his group of friends, liberal intellectuals. In 1991, Jacques Pilet created The New Daily and revolutionized the French-speaking press. March 18, 1998 is born The weather, on the ashes of all these noble ancestors. With the objective of being a credible, rigorous newspaper, anchored in Switzerland and open to the world, proudly carrying the heritage received. Twenty-five years later, this title is still there, thanks to you, dear reader, whom we warmly thank. It carries the same ambition, amplified by the questions in the era of ChatGPT, a technology of which we can still hardly guess what it will generate.
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