First it was the nosy neighbor next door, then the town crier, Guttenberg came along and we starting killing millions of trees for books, newspapers, and other media that helped us understand our place in the world. Hundreds of years later, television made that world a much smaller place and the nightly news told us "and that's the way it is...". Vietnam brought war into our living rooms, a man walked on the moon, and the media documented the social restructuring that has repeatedly occurred over successive generations. CNN replaced the world's intelligence agencies and we became bombarded with a million pieces of information 24/7 that confused us more than ever. The Internet made it a million times worse and handheld cameras and billions of cell phones now do much of the reporting for us. Along the way, progress is dismantling all the old institutions that killed all those trees and we have seemingly come full circle... back to the nosy neighbor... and she is us. Now what?
Wed, May 06, 2009
Recently, the UK Press Gazette announced that after 43 years it is to cease producing a hard copy magazine and will become an online channel only - bringing the curtain down on the only B2B title for the nation’s journalism profession.
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