http://www.creativedesigns.gr/blog

http://paulseaman.eu/2009/03/the-death-of-journalism-not-likely/

many websites and blogarticles are altered after publication whitout any mentionning of it,

many videos have disappeared from Youtube (anyone who has a copy of The second internet bubble song, please contact me @jansegers ASAP)

the printed work made people sure that they could look up the material they were discussing about in the form of historical sources that are unaltered

the problem of anything digital is that it’s perfectly feasable to create any second or third version of it whitout people noticing it and thus alterning the past like you wish

and the biggest problem is the possibility of a digital whipe-out by any magnetism accident or incident

distroying all copies of a printed work is extremely difficult, but distroying all digital
copies of it is feasable enough

A small number of ’stars’ journalists will be able to reap most of the rewards from large followings. Most will earn a much more modest living but doing something they love and are somewhat happy they’re able to do for a living at all.

It definitely won’t be glamorous.

Of course, even in that state, the jobs were already clogged up and now they’re being shed. Not much of a chance for anyone younger.

That said, despite a certain level of bitterness toward the industry, I too would like newspapers to stick around. I’d rather not bring my laptop to the bathroom…

http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090313.wfcover14/BNStory/Business/home

The story today has one stat that I find most troubling…a Pew Institute study has found that 300 papers now have bureaus in Washington, half as many as 20 years ago.

I, like many, already question how effective traditional media has been post 9/11 in covering the WMD rationale for the Iraq war, or the debacle on Wall Street.

Rupert Murdoch factor Fox “News” have already blurred the lines of objective journalism. And the evisceration of Jim Cramer by Jon Stewart this week over his boosterism of Wall Street on CNBC’s “Mad Money” continues this trend.

A friend of ours at wire service Canadian Press already is also operating under Mark’s new model. The problem is between video taping a subject, providing a digital radio sound bite for radio, and posting a story for member papers online, she hardly has time for research or fact checking.

As Mark’s piece suggests there are new entities emerging. Climate Wire, an online environmental newsletter, has twice as many reporters in Washington as the Hearst Newspaper group that serves 7 major US dailies.

However, I don’t really know Climate Wire or their agenda, so as a “consumer” of news, I have to work harder to authenticate any “news” coming from this organization.

It’s a fundamental concern as the fifth estate crumbles to hopefully be reinvented in the digital future…who’s watching the watcher?