Google owns the news by 2014

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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 com


Dave - 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. Traditional
reporting 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, and
random 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 the
newspaper 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 not
reading 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



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