Students of history, of journalism, of sociology: mark this month in your diaries. Mark this month well, because this is the month that what was formally called “mainstream” media was officially pronounced dead.And here I sit doing little more than ranting, swearing and editorialising. I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy.
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Three stories. Three weeks. First a key player in the Obama Administration fell. Then hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans staged an unprecedented march on the White House. Finally, a national, multi-million political advocacy group was destroyed.
And Big Media was blissfully unaware.
It doing so, they have signed their own death warrant and passed the baton of scrutiny over to citizen journalists around the country.
The fourth estate is dead. Long live the fourth estate.
Seriously, go read 'em.
1 comment:
I agree, blogs ARE changing the way we, the 'public' receive information. There's no dead hand on the tiller giving direction. It's a free for all.
May the best news provider win, and it's NOT going to be a name you know!!
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