 | The internet may kill newspapers; but it is not clear if that matters. For society, what matters is that people should have access to news, not that it should be delivered through any particular medium; and, for the consumer, the faster it travels, the better. The telegraph hastened the speed at which news was disseminated. So does the internet. Those in the news business use the new technology at every stage of newsgathering and distribution. A move to electronic distribution—through PCs, mobile phones and e-readers—has started. It seems likely only to accelerate. |
Interesting article overall. But the quotation above is problematic, for it could be argued that a change of medium would result in a change of message (right Marshall?). The anticipated disappearance of traditional newspapers should be studied (before being condemned or celebrated) as a global change in the means we use to shape our experience of the world and, thus, in the world itself. The news won’t be the same. Our experience of the news will change.
• Jan 12, 2010 link notes [via] tagged: communication technology history evolution newspaper news journalism telegraph twitter Internet speed medium media
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• Dec 25, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: photo kid food Christmas newspaper cover humor vintage BW
NYT Lens blog / Showcase: Our Moon. Photo by David Burnett, July 1969.
• Jul 21, 2009 link notes tagged: communication newspaper news kids vintage photo photographer space moon astronaut
A girl holds The Washington Post of Monday, July 21st 1969 stating ‘The Eagle Has Landed Two Men Walk on the Moon’: “This is a picture of my mother holding the Washington News Paper on Monday, July 21st 1969 stating ‘The Eagle Has Landed Two Men Walk on the Moon’. The photo was taken by my grandfather.” Photo by Jack Weir (1228-2005).
• Jul 21, 2009 link notes tagged: photo portrait BW kids news newspaper Moon space exploration travel culture America history
| Just over a fortnight ago, Matthew Robson had never worked in banking. This was mainly because he was 15 years and 7 months old and attending a comprehensive school in South London. Today he is the talk of Tokyo, Wall Street and the City. Fund managers, CEOs and analysts are poring over his report, How Teenagers Consume Media, which he wrote last week while on work experience at Morgan Stanley. In it he laid out the world according to the teenager: a confusing place where the PC is a radio, the games console is a telephone, the mobile telephone is a stereo and text-message machine, the DVDs are pirate copies and no one uses Twitter. |
• Jul 15, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: technology communication kids teenagers Twitter trends phone radio television Internet newspaper film
Same photo hosted at Gallery M.
About Carl Mydans:
“Carl Mydans was born in Boston in 1907, then in 1930 he graduated from the Boston University School of Journalism. In 1939, Mydans and his wife, Shelley Smith traveled to Europe on an assignment from Life magazine. They covered events such as Fascism in Italy and the invasion of France. During the war he covered both the European and Pacific fronts. In 1942, he was by the Japanese in the Sino-Japanese war. Eight and half months later he was released, and in 1944, he traveled to Europe. There he photographed the end of the European war. Then he photographed the final campaigns in the Pacific. After the war, he continued to work for Life magazine, covering both the Korean and Vietnam Wars.” (bio at Temple University).
This photo to go along excerpts from Greenberg’s research.
• Jul 02, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: photo photograph president celebrity politic death history vintage communication media newspaper news
