Steve Summit wrote: > I'm not saying we're doing anything wrong, any more than Google > News is doing anything wrong. But as Zachary Seward has > described [1], we're viewed (by Google itself) as one of the > web-2.0-ey things that will displace conventional journalism. > > This isn't the place to debate how conventional journalism > can rescue itself (or where the new niche for investigative > journalists will be), but it's a pretty interesting question. > > There's room for some amusement here ([[Raymond Smullyan]]-type self-reference or the worm [[Ouroboros]], depending on your preferred reading). The media is increasingly self-swallowing and at the same time journalists are writing more and more about the media. But what WP does cannot possibly displace totally "conventional journalism" in the sense of originating reporting. I'd certainly be interested in what someone from the wire services had to say, rather than those who are in it for a Pulitzer. And there are other angles, of course. Proper information is what moves markets, so those who have that information in a timely way will always have something to sell.
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