But really, I’m not getting your fixation on this subject. They are basically just two different methods of information delivery. One is passive, the 24/7 news cycle which has to fill large amounts of time. You can’t click to a specific item, they just keep rolling by to put time between commercials. People don’t normally watch it for huge chunks of time.

They also cover it in depth, multimedia with video, directly asking questions of the people involved so you get to judge expression and inflection and other nuances you don’t get from bloggers.

The “old media” is also starting to use email and twitter live, have websites etc….so I’m not really sure how accurate your description is.

What is happening is the “new media” doing much self congratulation and self important preening when the real star is the tech.

People risking their lives in Iran after all the news media was booted was amazing. Proxy Servers and smart phones got the story out and there was no way to shut it down, making a massive effort of expelling westerners fruitless.

It’s a Gutenberg level event of profound change.

That’s not saying there isn’t some very good work being done by Websites and bloggers, but I don’t know if tossing out unverified stories or miles wide and inch deep coverage is journalism.

Information is still uncovered and reported by people with talent, good instincts and hopefully, ethics and the standards to be credible. The web is still mostly like the old teletype machines, passing on a paragraph or two of facts with some editorializing.

Old media, at least here in the States, suffered greatly when autonomous news divisions got folded into entertainment divisions. Our last Presidential election might have been the end of traditional journalism. The pressure to produce and scoop others has basically undermined my ability to believe in unbiased reporting.

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