The Guardian chief, Alan Rusbridger, thinks blogs are crap and no-one will ever be clever enough to create a uber-sophisticated system like an old newspaper with its 600 whole journalists, the Guardian reports.
“But no one will actually go to the risk and expense of setting up a global network of people whose only aim in their professional lives is to find things out, establish if they’re true, and write about them quickly, accurately and comprehensibly.”
Mr Rusbridger said the “blogosphere, which is frequently parasitical on the mainstream media it so remorselessly critiques, can’t ever hope to replicate that”.
Blogging, he said, was “wonderfully enabling, intoxicatingly democratic, exhilaratingly anarchic” but that it was not going to bring about the end of newspapers or journalistic authority.
words? eat. he. will. his.
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He’s not wrong. Old Media will survive. The Radio didn’t die when TV came along. But it does change the role of the old media. The Guardian itself has a cadre of people that comment on their articles on their site, its almost a check & balance. There’s going to need ot be more ways to participate and communicate within old media. But of course, it will not dissappear. Its role has to evolve though to meet the needs of how people consumer news and media now.
June 10th, 2006 at 3:41 pm