Although the model of government-owned press has failed, in spite of Newspapers now being bailed out, I expect Newspapers to make a comeback in the next decade or so. As Glenn Greenwald demonstrates, the government newspapers now simply steal their best ideas from bloggers, since transferring press-release faxes from city hall to the newspaper and slapping a by-line on it is too much work in this day and age.
Our government tolerates news and blogs because whereas before with a newspaper no one knew what you read or what you thought, today the powers that be can teack what you read, and then gauge what you think by the email you send or the blog posting you make following the reading of the story.
With this "total information awareness" main stream media message can be massaged to keep us all in line.
Newspapers will revive when the debts are cleared and the people writing good blogs are collected as reporters for the newspapers. I stopped reading newspapers about 20 years ago when they stopped reporting news. This can change.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Newspapers Will Live On
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