The Internet has the mainstream journalists worried, and for good reason.
As the establishment sees it, millions of pajama clad amateurs are sitting at home pounding their keyboards and then uploading their uninformed, unedited and unrefined streams of consciousness, while print media circulation and TV News ratings continue to fall.
Accordingly, NBC’s Brian Williams laments that as the public abandons the mainstream media, the nation will “miss the next great book or the next great idea, or that we will fail to meet the next great challenge… because we are too busy celebrating ourselves.”
Despite the Internet’s manifest shortcomings, the Pew Research Center reports that in November, 2004, 29% of the adult population was getting its news from the Internet.
Why would this be surprising? It shouldn’t be. All you have to do is read pretty much any edition of dailyhowler.com, or maybe story, to know how out of touch the Washington MSM is…
Comment by animaux — January 19, 2007 @ 6:38 am
Why would this be surprising? It shouldn’t be. All you have to do is read pretty much any edition of dailyhowler.com, or maybe story, to know how out of touch the Washington MSM is…
Comment by animaux — January 19, 2007 @ 6:39 am