I’ve written a bit about this before, vaguely speculating that networks of blogs and blogging might address some of what was expected or hoped for from public television 20 or 30 years ago.
Today I ran across an article by Om Malik in Business 2.0, pointed to by Doc Searls, in which Om sets out to make the case for a potential “New News Network”.
Here’s an excerpt … read the rest of it here.
The 1990s proved to be the decade when cable news networks replaced network television as the primary source of breaking news for many Americans, just as the 1960s saw newspapers supplanted. In the new millennium, a broadband-enabled, always-on Internet threatens to usurp those cable news networks.
For evidence, look no further than the recent tsunami disaster. While most networks, cable networks included, were regurgitating wire service copy and the same six minutes of videotape, Americans were turning to weblogs for the latest news and to peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent for videos, most of them shot by amateurs. The first images of the tragedy did not come from CNN, but rather were grainy, blurry photos captured by camera phones.
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