February 15, 2005

Refreshing

In contrast to the old media types I wrote about yesterday, Glenn Reynolds points out an article written by Charlie Madigan of the Chicago Tribune rebuking those in the old media:

Shut up with your whining and appreciate the fact that after generations of stagnation, something new has arrived. And like all new things, it's going to take awhile for it to work itself out.

Conventional journalism seems aghast that a whole collection of independent voices from all sides of the political spectrum are popping up now to pick and smear and slander and point accusing fingers, wreck careers, cast aspersions and introduce something besides a century-old sense of entitled hierarchy to the formula for news presentation.

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What new media gets to do now is exactly what old media got to do back when it was new media, which is work out how it is going to be.

My sentiments exactly! Go read the entire thing (registration required).

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