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« Defeating Terrorism | Main | Memogate: CBS Seeks A Fall-Guy » September 20, 2004From the Email BagI received an email from a reader that I'd like to share with you. Does it strike you that we are at the same point with journalism that happened to the computer industry, that CBS et al are the big-iron guys like DEC and IBM, watching the desktops roll into offices and whistling past the graveyard that all these 'toys' won't amount to much? It's much the same attitude I think, and I'm a bit surprised they don't see it. Big Media will never go away, simply because it's too expensive to reproduce what they do and most people don't necessarily like to chew their own food by going to multiple blogsites and deciding for themselves what is going on, but this last couple weeks has been either the meteor striking the Caribbean Basin or the Flood, depending on where you fall on the Creation-Evolution axis. Either way, the sky is now cloudy and dark, and the bigger animals are getting a sense that something's about to change that is entirely beyond their control.An apt analogy. Even the way I got the email is rather illuminating as to the difference between Big Media and the interactive, open-source journalism of the blogosphere. The emailer is someone who I went to college with almost two decades ago. I haven't spoken to him since college. He found my blog via Instapundit. I've never met the Instapundit, but his hyperlink to my blog brought me a reader I haven't spoken to (or, truth be told, thought of) in years. For all its money and power and reach, Big Media can't do that. Only the interactive, hyperlinked, reader-involved form of journalism known as blogging can. Posted in Journalism & Media
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The proper analogy, which is a direct fit, is between open source/free software and proprietary software. Many of the various insults that Big Media has been directing at bloggers is nearly word for word identical to the statements that Microsoft and Sun have been making about Linux and other such software. I'll elaborate more when I have time to sit down and put some quotes together, but it will surprise someone to see the similarities. Posted by: Michael Chaney at September 20, 2004 02:11 PMI'm glad big media is losing market share, we need other voices. bradenton fl Posted by: bill at September 20, 2004 02:51 PMI'm always amazed when I see something come up on Drudge that is damaging to the left and then go to the 'Bigmedia' sites like pmsnbc and see them all walk in lockstep like it never happened. Like how many want to connect the dots to the Kerry campaign from Rathergate. Posted by: Don Y at September 21, 2004 02:39 PMThe proper analogy, which is a direct fit, is between open source/free software and proprietary software. Many of the various insults that Big Media has been directing at bloggers is nearly word for word identical to the statements that Microsoft and Sun have been making about Linux and other such software. Post a comment
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