Where the web works well
Two internet pieces involving media for your review and consideration.
1. It’s not as ephemeral as they say. Check out how a lot of content - much of it video - has been repurposed in this Obama timeline from the New York Times.
2. This piece by Paul Steiger in The Wall Street Journal takes a hard look at the newspapering business in particular, the news business in general, something The Wire is doing (and which I wrote about a bit earlier today) in its upcoming - and ultimate - season.
As you probably know, I’m both a media watcher and a media student. And we’re fortunate (?) enough to be living in what are clearly fascinating media times.
Mark, thanks as always for picking out a particularly interesting piece of writing in the Steiger article.
Two thoughts come to mind. One, a senior editor of one of the two most important news gatherers in the world (the other being the NY Times) is heading up a non-profit…for anyone who remembers the Journal of a few years ago and it’s business and profit making structures this is unreal irony.
Second, my wife and I try to watch the evening news (cable mostly) and often call it “The Youtube News Hour” meaning that a good portion of the coverage comes from some guy on a bike and a camcorder, iphone, etc. Anchorpeople talking to this “reporter” just stuns me but it probably wouldn’t if I were 26 instead of 46.
Then, the great give-up. CNN actually airs a program yesterday called ireporter…a collection of these citizen journalists complete with interviews?
Do they see they are writing there own obituary? Or will hey leave that up to a grad student with a $100 Sony camcorder also?
Posted by RDH on 01.02.08.