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Google owns the news by 2014
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 18:32:42 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Peter Jones <peter () redesignresearch com> Date: May 12, 2005 5:53:58 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Google owns the news by 2014 Reply-To: peter () redesignresearch comDave - I wonder if you would find this as interesting and relevant as I did.
Your list comes to mind as the primary alternative channel for this discussion. The year is 2014. the press as we know it no longer exists. Traditionalreporting has collapsed. News is churned out by the media giant Googlezon. (Google has taken over many companies and joined forces with Amazon.) The
news consists of blogs, attitudes, discoveries, preferences, claims, andrandom thoughts, gathered and shaped by computers and a few human editors, then fed back to ordinary people who produce the continuing conversation.
The New York Times is off the Internet. It still publishes, but thenewspaper has become a newsletter read only by the elite and the elderly.
This is the finding of a clever, eight-minute mock documentary, EPIC 2014, produced by the fictional Museum of Media History (in reality, journalists Matt Thompson of the Fresno Bee and Robin Sloan of Current, a new cable news channel in San Francisco). Thompson and Sloan recently added a short section taking the history up to 2015. The mockumentary is starting to reach a mass audience at a time of unusually high anxiety for the news industry. The news business has been hobbled by a string of scandals and credibility problems. Skirmishes between reporters and bloggers seem like the beginning of a long war between old media and new. Newspaper publishers are nervous--some would
say paralyzed with fright--over polls showing that young adults are notreading papers. Their audience is dying off. A lot of young people say they
get their news from a brief look at headline news or from late-night comedians. ...http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20050511/ts_usnews/ googlingthefuture
Mockumentary site at: http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/ Peter Jones REDESIGN RESEARCH innovation insight http://redesignresearch.com/blog/reblog.htm ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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