Doyle,
let us agree that old media did not adequately address community
concerns and the social aspects of information (gathering,
dissemination, analysis, etc). Worse, they often played the part of
masking truth and acting as organs. Let us grant all that. Two
critiques still remain:
One is the simple pragmatic point raised by Gladwell: gathering,
dissemination, etc, cost money, and always will.
Second, what is replacing the old model is often (a) nothing more than
a promiscuous "borrowing" of their labour (most political blogs quote
Reuters, AP, NYT, WaPo for actual data or details), (b) worse because
it does away with even the pretence of objectivity (small 'o').
--ravi
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