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All of Us, the Arbiters of News
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by Erik Larson | August 20, 2008 at 02:26 pm
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Arbiter:
1. a person empowered to decide matters at issue; judge; umpire.
2. a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining.
This is an article about how human nature and the Network Age are forcing the corporate media to bend to our will, and our demand for choice in news, information and content. The web and related networking technologies, as this article points out, can be a powerful positive influence on their news gathering and dissemination; trying to interfere with it may be their downfall. The only people who can't be happy about this are the Operation Mockingbird spooks, and corporate media moguls who want to manage what people see, hear and think for their personal profit. Uncovered: British journalists who are spooks. I wasn't sure whether to put this in World, Tech/Biz or Culture, and decided on culture because the Network Age is changing and creating culture
Emerging technologies that threaten to destroy the current paradigm can have precisely the opposite effect. Remember when VCRs and then DVDs were going to lay waste to the movie industry and ended up saving it instead? The Web leaks of entertainment that NBC bought and paid for served as a kind of trailer for the real thing.
There is a lesson there for rest of the media, most specifically The Philadelphia Inquirer, where the managing editor, Michael Leary, issued a memo last week suggesting that all of the paper’s good stuff — “signature investigative reporting, enterprise, trend stories, news features and reviews” — would not appear online until they first appear in print.
“For our bloggers, especially, this may require a bit of an adjustment,” Mr. Leary informed the staff. “Some of you like to try out ideas that end up as subjects of stories or columns in print first. If in doubt, consult your editor.”
Even to the eye of this reporter — to use a hack newspaper term — The Inquirer seems to be making a mistake. If the future of our business is online, then why set up a firewall, delaying the best content to protect a legacy product? And more adept reporters are beginning to realize that the Web is not just a way to broadcast news, it is a great way to assemble it as well.
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at 14:35 on August 20th, 2008
Erik Larson, very interesting find. Thanks for this. Good stuff.
at 14:59 on August 20th, 2008
Erik Larson, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 17:21 on August 20th, 2008
Erik Larson, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 17:23 on August 20th, 2008
Good one!
at 17:42 on August 20th, 2008
thanks everyone, this kind of thing is what NowPublic and the new media are all about, imho. If we can keep Net Neutrality, the medium of the web and all the related and emerging technologies may be incorruptible, and as technology improves it will become even easier to cut thru the BS to find what we're looking for, including truth and justice.
http://savetheinternet.com/
at 17:50 on August 20th, 2008
Erik Larson, I like this story. It's good stuff.
A very interesting piece.
at 18:05 on August 20th, 2008
Erik Larson, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 19:16 on August 20th, 2008
Erik Larson, I like this story. It's good stuff. Great story Eric. If ever we needed Nowpubic it is Now.
Nice to see you here. http://www.maverickpakistanis.com/index.htm Rev.
at 22:30 on August 20th, 2008
thank you Amy, Emilio and DJermano.
From the maverick website, fits with the above article:
"Keeping in view the importance of the country and knacks of its people, we, a group of senior journalists, IT professionals and social workers, decided to introduce the Pakistani nation to the global audience as well as the young generation at home. For highlighting the maverick nature of Pakistani people, we chose the medium of Internet because it is the most popular, powerful and latest medium of information gathering and dissemination in this age of information technology. Moreover, it is also an open secret that today’s world is more inclined to the internet to access the information than any other source"
at 01:14 on August 21st, 2008
That is great news to hear Erik. Now it makes it possible to get real News and News validation on events on the ground not only in Pakistan but around the world. No longer are we to be hoodwinked with fake stories and lies from the MSM.
at 07:39 on August 21st, 2008
Erik Larson, I like this story. It's good stuff.