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Old Media Out Of Touch in the New World

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader

Dec 09, 2008

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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed)

In this era of high-speed Internet connections, satellites, wireless connections, cell phones, and computers, our world is increasingly becoming connected. Currently, there are enough cell phone connections to cover half the world's population, and they reach places traditional internet connections never ever could. I think it's partly this, and the massive network, that makes Twitter so popular, and an increasingly useful tool for finding news, where it happens, from the source. Nevermind Twitter though - you have Facebook, where friends and family find out news, again from the source, where it happens. You have YouTube, where people are recording and uploading video, which spreads to their friends. You now have live-streaming video, through services such as Qik and Kyte, all bringing news to you, from the source, un-edited, as it happens, in a very visual format.

I was on a panel Friday here in Salt Lake City, Utah, where I was the blogger amongst two traditional media reporters. One was Paul Foy, an A ...Read the full article

Comments (5)

Robdiana,

Dec 09, 2008

Granted it is a small sample size, but if mainstream media really do think like the guys Jesse was with, they really are in more trouble than I thought.

Hanna Wiszniewska,

Dec 09, 2008

Well, both groups (journalists and bloggers have a lot to learn from each other. Anyway - nice article...

Erich13,

Dec 09, 2008

The new world order appears to be the same as it is in life, niches, specialized communities. Which reminds me of "Think Globally, Act Locally".

Thomaspower,

Dec 09, 2008

so true so very true.

Greghollingsworth,

Dec 10, 2008

I think the problem is that traditional media is simply slow to embrace the changing technologies that we are all obviously engrossed in. Many traditional media outlets are taking strides to incorporate new media into their routines. It's a slow process, especially given that traditional media moguls aren't exactly known to be the most forward thinking.

Journalism will not die, it will change, and indeed it has changed. Most of what we get from our "news providers" is info-tainment at this point. It's the Bill O'Reilly's and Ketih Olbermann's of the world giving us their opinions about the news. What I think we are seeing is a watershed change in the way the news is communicated, not the death of any singular form thereof.

We will always need journalists, because there is most certainly a level of professionalism that much of new media lacks. While we on the inside may think that twitter is the best place to get our breaking news, we must remember that there are hundreds of millions of people in the US alone who do not use twitter, or digg, or delicious, or social|median.