News Media is recognizing threat from internet. Jack Caffery CNN contributor recently asked people this question and there were interesting answers
Television still tops the list as the main news source at 66%, but that number is down significantly from 82% as recently as 2002.
Today 6p.m. they did broadcast of some replies and there were wide range of answers. Lot of other people recognized that they read and watch more on laptop than TV. Interesting answer was there is no policing on internet connects, so you cannot verify validity of the news. http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/
I worry that when everyone can custom-build their information "feeds" -- i.e., when everyone can filter the news stream to just the news they want to hear -- we are in trouble as a society. There's already plenty of anecdotal evidence that people are getting their "news" and their "facts" from blog rants.
ReplyDeleteThere's a famous quote by the late US senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan that I've already seen cited a few times by bloggers who are worried about this phenomenon:
"You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts."