It would be humanly impossible to stay abreast of news and happenings everywhere- even with internet availability and access to all local papers/news stations etc. Which is where news networks play a major role. they are simply distilling the information and bringing it to us.

just like blogs do.

“You’re right The question remains how will information from the grassroots be collected and distributed without MSM reporters doing that work? There’s a solution out there (http://www.ojr.org/ojr/robert/884/) , but it is not yet clear.”

Who is the Editor? Who does the Filtering? The user? I mean, how much time do you need to skip through all European Newspapers, all US newspapers, all NY State Newspapers? How much time does it even take to create your profile then, which papers or newsfeeds you prefer? Seems very complicated to me.

And then still- I like my regular newspaper. It takes years to find out which newspapers you regularly read etc.. and probably you gonna change your daily newspaper 3,4 orso times in your life.

Therefore I think you’d need some kindof trusted Editorial-Service in the Web that pre-selects all the information-feeds you need for your personal use. I personally don’t see a convincing service offering that YET.

What do you think?

greez,

matthias

I don’t think you’re thinking big enough. Stop thinking ‘my, that would be a lot of information to get through’ – you’re going to get the same level of content – how it gets edited/sorted will change. This will be done through a new system created through the folksonomy.

The only thing the newspapers will keep will be opinion and original reporting – say 20% of their business.

heh! I try to think really big but I don’t get the picture on how to sort all this 10.000.000 newsagencyfeeds out there and sync them in one easy-to-use application. My guess is that it would break down to the “usual suspects” + a fistful of exotic feeds in the end.

And, maybe that’s some old-fashioned idea of mine again- Editors will become more important again. The “System” as you call it won’t be smart enough to replace experienced editor’s hands to put together content. I’d bet on that!

Ok, for example politicians or wallstreet brokers already read maybe 10-20 newspapers a day. But what about the majority who are not part of this kind of business? The everyday newspaper-subscriber kindof persons?

I mean curious as I am- can you tell me how to sort these things out? I totally agree that things are going to change and that traditional reporting will loose rapidly. But I would be more interested in how they can be solved. I know that it’s going to happen…

I think press/news distribution is one field that goes with the classical media sales drop-story. The newsagencies, press companies etc. haven’t reacted to changing customer reception either. Or did I miss something big here?

More on our Death Of The Newspaper meme: Belo, a Dallas media company plans to launch a mobile content service from its various local TV stations across the US. The content will be available to the 1.5m subscribers of Weathernews.Textually Post Related…

I said at the time:”Imagine that we had access to all the local content from local TV and radio stations (and blogs) through technology like RSS, and this content was organised in some way like del-cio.us-style tagging, Technorati-style weighting………

In his weekly column, Victor Keegan of the Guardian upholds the view that newspapers will win the battle of news. Here are some extracts from his column and a little reaction from us.