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« Subject: "CYA" | Main | Support the War Effort » September 21, 2004
Pinkerton "Gets It" Again
Posted by Bill Via Overtaken by Events, Jim Pinkerton's new column: So the "de-massification" of the media has been ongoing-and will keep going. In the '90s, Internet-based news-most notably the Drudge Report, which burst on the scene in 1998 by breaking the Monica Lewinsky story-proved that the "new media" could blow past older media. And now we have even newer media: the bloggers, the folks at home in their pajamas who collectively broke the "Rathergate" story. The two key concepts in this never-ending techno-saga are the increasing ubiquity of Internet-based technology and the decreasing barriers to entry into a public forum. That is, anybody with a computer and a modem can be a blogger, and any blogger can be a media-player. It's certainly an unavoidable new paradigm. Pinkerton also makes the case that we've heard the death knell of network news, a point that he also ferociously argued with Neil Gabler on Fox News Watch. To be honest, I find it kind of funny that the concept is even being contested, seeing as the last time I really sat down and watched any of the big three anchors was probably when I saw them interviewed on Larry King or Bill O'Reilly. Posted by Bill at September 21, 2004 10:56 AM | TrackBack (0) CommentsWe need a new name for these without the -gate suffix. That was the hilight of MSM. Posted by: Brett at September 21, 2004 10:58 AM I agree ... Go vote for a new name! Posted by: Bill from INDC Journal at September 21, 2004 11:01 AM "Weaselgate" I don't mind this "gate" so much. It goes with bill's chicken graphic, too. Weasels in the chicken coup and Farmer McAwful's in a tizzy. "Chickens at the Gate." Wasn't that a famous novel? Posted by: willem at September 21, 2004 12:02 PM Methinks Mr. Pinkerton owes at least partial credit to the Blogfather for one of his lines... Pinkerton:
Posted by: azlibertarian at September 21, 2004 01:17 PM |
