United Liberty
The New Media
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 6:09pm | posted by Shana Kluck
To our faithful readers, we apologize for not updating since Tuesday. We’re all in various modes of travel back to our homes and trying to “recover” from a busy and exciting Rally for the Republic.
This morning, I’m visiting family in Plano, TX, doing something I rarely, rarely do- watch the “old media” on television. While listening to Meredith Vieira, of NBC’s Today Show, interview Katie Couric and Brian Williams on the floor of the Republican Convention in St. Paul, I was shocked by something I heard Katie say-
What is the media? You can’t paint it in the broad stroke you used to. It includes the thousands and thousands of bloggers and partisan reporters.
Earlier his year, Lew Rockwell coined the term, New Media, of which I proudly consider myself a member. But it’s interesting to know what we’re being recognized by the traditional media and I have to wonder what would compel them to do that.
Katie probably realizes that her ratings are not what they would have been 10 years ago, and that’s because of the new media. There’s a lot more freedom in the new media than there is when you’re writing for a major newspaper or reporting for a TV station. As a result people’s raw viewpoints are able to be expressed and viewed. There’s not as much money in it as there was for a Tom Brokaw or Walter Cronkite, but it’s a great phenomenon.
New media becomes the easiest way to express someone’s thought and even to broaden an issue to a wider range. Mainly, it is the reason why along with the global financial crisis that newspapers have been hurting lately like The Seattle Post Intelligencer. They even have to shut down their operations on March 17th, 2009 during the St. Patrick’s Day. The paper decided to go online. Even the other area papers from Tacoma and Olympia
will be shutting down as well. Now the customers of Post Intelligencer would rather take the Seattle Times instead. Many will face the same fate as to the Post Intelligencer but those who are subscribers of Seattle Post Intelligencer can still find them online.
New media becomes the easiest way to express someone’s thought and even to broaden an issue to a wider range. Mainly, it is the reason why along with the global financial crisis that newspapers have been hurting lately like The Seattle Post Intelligencer. They even have to shut down their operations on March 17th, 2009 during the St. Patrick’s Day. The paper decided to go online. Even the other area papers from Tacoma and Olympia
will be shutting down as well. Now the customers of Post Intelligencer would rather take the Seattle Times instead. Many will face the same fate as to the Post Intelligencer but those who are subscribers of Seattle Post Intelligencer can find them online.
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