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Infomaniac: WeBlog
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Talking about journalism
Lots of people are talking about this Flash documentary called EPIC. It's supposedly from something called 'The Museum of Media History' in Tampa, in 2014, discussing how the news and entertainment media will have changed by then, to reflect what people want to hear. For a taste of the possible future, worth a look.
For more on how journalism's doing these days, there's The State of the News Media 2005, a long detailed report from Journalism.org. And, lots of journalists and scholars are talking about the book by UNC journalism prof Phil Meyer (once a Herald reporter) called The Vanishing Newspaper. For a report on this book, journalist Tim Porter has read and summarized it. Apparently Prof. Meyer predicts the last newspaper reader will be gone by 2040 -- and, as some have pointed out, that's about the time Social Security will go red according to administration predictions. For another last look at the whole Dan Rather saga from last summer, culminating in Dan's last day last week, James Goodale has looked at the report which came a few months later, and says it's flawed:
posted by liz at 8:51 AM 
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