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  • Future tense for old-time media - (on its way to "also ran" status?)

    05/09/2005 10:06:27 AM PDT · by CHARLITE · 9 replies · 631+ views
    NEW YORK DAILY NEWS.COM ^ | MAY 9, 2005 | JOHN LEO
    The year is 2014. The press as we know it no longer exists. Traditional reporting has collapsed. News is churned out by the media giant Googlezon (Google has taken over many companies and joined forces with Amazon). The news consists of blogs, attitudes, discoveries, preferences, claims and random thoughts, gathered and shaped by computers and human editors, and fed back to ordinary people. The New York Times has become a newsletter read only by the elite and the elderly. This is the finding of a clever eight-minute mock documentary, "Epic 2014," produced by the fictional Museum of Media History (in...