A vision of the future of mass media.
Blogs will be the first place that news breaks, and the only place to go for serious, insightful reporting. local newspapers will be replaced with loose networks of local blogs. national newspapers will be driven to extinction by algorithms (e.g. google news, blogdex) and information clearinghouse blogs (e.g. boingboing, slashdot). The Wikimedia projects (wikipedia, wiktionary, wikinews) will overtake the New York Times to become the “news of record,” the first place people go for unfamilar information or to followup on previous events (after google). Eventually the cultural importance of Wikipedia will spawn the Wikiprint project (in a joint venture with lulu and the american library association) in order to provide periodically printed editions of the latest versions of all wikipedia articles. when the national newspapers go up for sale, the wikimedia foundation will start buying their archives and hiring a few wiki-friendly reporters and editors to work on developing content and editing full time.
Cable news will become entertainment (wait, the future is already here) pandering to specific demographic and political groups. the daily show will outgrow comedy central to emerge as its own network; later internet distribution of their reports via bittorrent will outpace revenue from cable. it will attract the 18-34 year old, liberal intellectual demographic in spades, covering the news with a sense of humor while providing the most utterly devastating analysis of the issues of the day.
Local tv news will be replaced by what we now think of as public access television, delivered over the web, but with the advent of low cost digital video recording and editing equipment, it will rival the cable networks in terms of quality, cutting edge content, and personal engagement. most future film makers will get their start producing pieces for local video websites.
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Yes, I believe that this is very true upon how the vision of the future of mass media will be. It would be weird to see blogs taking over newspaper national news go up for sale would be a huge change for media because newspaper has been a main known information source to keep a update, but if they are thinking to cut out newspaper and having blogs replace news reports would be a huge change for media, people and public. For people if news changed to internet it could cause problems among people who have computers. Some people would probably disagree with the fact to change the news of TV but would have effects on news casters and news stations that are in the business. For these changes there are positive and negatives to this Media changes for the future but overall if it is to happen I feel people would have to adjust to the change.
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