Mom #1 (aka Charlene, Charmom, Chuckie in days of old) forwarded me an article about the outsourcing of copy editing and page layout from various newspapers around the globe (including the Orange County Register's stable of local publications) to a group in India.

Which triggered the Sunday Question:

How do you view the current state of flux and reconfiguration of our nation's print media?  Is it a good thing, and if so, why?  Or will it be the dumbing down (even futher) of our news sources and hence our society?

 


Comments

Erik

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:53:24

It is an evolutionary jump, and I think a damn interesting one. Witness what has happened in Iran in the last 2 months. Such news would have been flatly impossible under the old newspapers-major TV Networks model. It may lack some of the artistic elegance of the journalism of the last 100 years, but it is also less controlled, less funneled. And yes, some of it may be not be as smart as the old journalism (although intelligence wasn't always a hallmark of the major TV networks or the major newspapers, either) but there is plenty of intelligent commentary and review in the blogosphere and Digg and other places.

I say bring it on. It is an encouraging sign that just maybe The Singularity is on the right track -

 

Laura

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:30:28

I like how you frame this, Erik, as an evolutionary jump. And you're right that nothing would have gotten out of Iran but the "official" word. Yet Twitter captured some of what was going on, as did cellphone video, etc.

What was being presented was not commentary but raw news. Intelligent commentary can always follow in other formats.

 



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