Sunday, March 22, 2009

Another vote for letting 'em die

Writer Sonia Arrison at TechNewsWorld likens newspapers to buggy whips in an essay that predicts, as do others by many other tech writers, that we'll just have lots of media outlets rather than just a few major media ones. She's quite confident that this will happen (frequently using the word "will" rather than "may" when predicting the future), and that is one of the reasons I'm doubtful. Like so many of the new news outlets, she doesn't offer any evidence except for citing one writer about technical coverage (if any subject would be covered well on the Internet, it should be technical coverage). Like so much of the new media, the essay is rich in opinion -- which may come true, but it's still relatively unsupported opinion. 

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