Brian H
2008-01-20 14:08:17
“So the solution is encouraging the Internet to replace mainstream media with a multitude of voices competing in a freewheeling marketplace of ideas.”
For ideas, fine. But for “news” — i.e., data about what is happening — the Internet is parasitic on the Formerly Mainstream Media, with a few exceptions like Yon and Totten and others.
Who pays? Who does the daily slogging?
Maybe this tension and balance between commercial newsers and amateur responders etc. is as good as it gets.
William;
Offered without comment or extrapolation: Vividness of imagination is a good predictor of how readily and deeply one can be hypnotized.
