[p2p-research] Obama open to newspaper bailout bill - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

[Ryan Lanham]

For whatever it is worth, I hold the same view as Kevin on this.  I see no
advantage to the large organizations.  I believe bloggers will go to war
zones, will do long, drawn-out feature-like articles, etc. if there is a
demand and a use for such work.  As it is now, I prefer my news in a collage
of snippets...something I learned in the finance industry where it is
standard.  First, you act on your gut, then you research more...and form a
strategy.  Politicians, I find, are starting to act the same way.  The way
news is used is no longer a 1 day cycle that newspapers need.  I think it is
the timing ecology that has killed them.

Ryan

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/5/09, Paul D. Fernhout <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:
> >
> http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/59523-obama-open-to-newspaper-bailout-bill
>
> >   "I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere,
> all
> > opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put
> stories
> > in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each
> > other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding," he said.
> >  """
>
> That's the establishment liberal view of blogs, all right.  Problem
> is, it's ass-backwards.  "Fact-checking" for the blogosphere works
> about the same as for Wikipedia:  it's not a function of the
> individual blogger, but of the relationship between bloggers.  And I
> suspect the blogosphere collectively stacks up pretty well against
> "professional" journalists when it comes to fact-checking.  Any error
> of fact or reasoning in a major blog is subject to being ruthlessly
> exposed by other bloggers.
>
>
>
>
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