Death Of Old Media Still Greatly Exaggerated
from the different-strokes... dept
The battle for the soul of the news may not be as big a fight as you'd expect. While the newspapers continue to make silly strategic moves, the focus on the platform rather than the content is a mistake. News, obviously, doesn't need to be delivered by a newspaper. However, the idea that there's some sort of big battle between newspapers and online news sites is misleading. As a new study shows, the two remain complementary, as different people use each for different purposes. Perhaps that's why it should come as no surprise that newspapers are continuing to invest in their web properties. It's not about moving to the web and ditching paper, but in recognizing that they're news organzations -- not newspaper organizations.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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for serving fish and chips, lining a bird cage and
wrapping fish.
I used to subscribe to five newspapers now I
get all my news from radio and the internet.
When news papers began shifting away from
hard new, when they began confusing editorial
comment with reporting, I found them less and
less interesting.
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The paper
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Coupons only please
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News....paper...OHH I get it!
That said, I don't think that blogging, or anything similar is going to take the place of respected media outlets in the long run. I for one don't believe much of what I read on blogs, but I do think bloggers have something to add in the editorial space, where good ideas and unbiased commentary seem to be few and far between from the usual suspects...
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The Nuclear Meltdown of News
Sounds better than all those headless Lebanese babies on TV news, but will old media ever care? Will they talk about news that ordinary folk relate to, or keep giving minute to minute coverage of people being blown to bits on some other corner of the planet?
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Dialogue is the Content
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Death of Old Media
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RE: Death of Old Media
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That is, the technology is not being fully utilized to maximize the ROI despite the $$$ spent on the technology. Eventually that discrepency will catch up to them.
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No news is the only news...
There still are real journalists out there but the platform is no longer what it used to be. Now they must act as puppets serving the agenda of the media companies.
These conglomerates are:
Disney, Viacom, Time-Warner, News Corp, Clear Channel
More info: http://www.sarahstirland.com/archives/mediacon.htm
Anyway, news has been replaced by big business and anything they show is either filler (endlessly repeating non-news) or a story twisted such to satisfy other agendas.
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