Posted
6:42 AM
by Gene
Even a "media reporter" admits to his biz' obsolescence:In the race to a story, they can't beat citizen journalists who don't have to book a flight or arrange satellite time. By the dinner-time newscast, the day's news is old news.
There remains a role for traditional media, but, increasingly, the news is speaking for itself.Yes, the news does speak for itself, and so do our imaginations, and as we imagine the news, and imagine how "armies" of news hacks cover the news, and imagine how batallions of "citizen-journalists" with cell-phones get three-second out of focus grainy snapshots, we can increasingly imagine the news, and are fed up even more totally with it.