[Taliesan]

Well said.

But, I hasten to add, if they were utterly honest, they would still be obsolete. The mechanics of their demise is technological; the pleasure we derive from it is ethical.

[pillbox_girl]

The thing is, the Old Media editor system of news delivery is ultimately self corrupting. All the news is forced to go through a single filter. Now if that editor is honest and incorrupt, everything is fine. But it is not stable. All that needs to happen is for that one bottleneck to lose its integrity, and all the news coming through it is corrupted. The corrupted news then influences other and future editors, and we have a downward spiral.

The distributed reporting of the Internet, on the other hand, is inherently self correcting. Informaion comes from many sources and is held to the standards of the truth instead of the standards of a single editor. False information is quickly debunked and true items are propagated. Spin becomes impossible.