The San Francisco Weekly's Matt Smith says that war in Iraq is
exposing the irrelevancy of
traditional media: "Nobody with any brains looks to the mainstream
media for truth on the war these days." Plus:
'Lynch Party.'
http://www.cursor.org/
And...
posted by Dan Gillmor 07:06 AM
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SARS...Wild rumors and little information from official sources
contributed to the fear. This was a case where new media -- SMS, the Net
-- and old media such as newspapers and TV could have worked together to
calm people, had Chinese officials had the freedom to tell the truth.
But SMS as an early-warning system seems to have worked in this case.
It's an important if under-publicized element in this larger saga.
And it's a lesson in how news and information are changing -- how the
world will look fairly soon.
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/
