This paper attempted to transition into the Internet age
with a website and addition of video reports. Obviously the problems with the
newspaper’s bottom line were not cured.
Traditional media as we knew it is on life support
everywhere in the world. Broadcasters
and newspapers have billions invested in presses and broadcasting equipment
that has become a stone around their necks.
Anyone can acquire adequate equipment for a few thousand dollars to send
quality pre-packaged or live video around the world.
Our new large television screens are rapidly making the
transition to bring us web content along with traditional broadcast
equipment. It’s only a matter of time
before TV broadcasting towers come down everywhere. Cable providers are rapidly losing out to
wireless providers.
There are still those people to ignorant or otherwise trapped
in a technology bubble, that rejects or otherwise has no access to computers. Those that can read newspapers, listen to
radio or watch television. Those offline
folk’s numbers are shrinking every day and soon they will have t accept the
changes. Internet navigation has never
been easier and is getting simpler every day.
Broadband his improved and reaches nearly everyone. A large segment of the population is satisfied to get their news on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
They have abandoned the traditional sources.
The most difficult part of this media meltdown is the
derailed careers, missed house payments and divorces ahead for unemployed
journalists. How do people that invested
more than ten years in a career deal with an industry depression? Those that are lucky to remain employed have
shrinking paychecks and benefits.
Twenty or more years ago the people unable thrive in a
newsroom went to work for government agencies as public information
officers. Now solid reporters and TV
anchors are begging for those PIO positions.
The only good news here is that the singular Leftist
lockstep slant of mainstream media is dying too. News and opinion has become democratized by
technology. The problem is most of the bloggers are
working for free or next to nothing.
Matt Drudge the granddaddy of bloggers made millions by
aggregating news from multiple sources.
He created a single one-stop international news page with a Conservative
flavor.
Some bloggers have found lucrative careers like Alex Jones
by over-sensationalizing every conspiracy theory to a hungry audience of believers. Others that cater to a specific audience like
firearm aficionados have built audiences and appropriate advertisers.
The greatest journalist in the world won’t succeed on the
Internet with out learning web promotion as they navigate in a world of catchy
buzzwords and meta tags.
Who will pay for hard-hitting investigative news exposés of
corruption, fraud and conspiracies?
Correspondents must travel, stay in hotels to get interviews and gather
records and information for stories that sometimes just don’t develop.
Breaking a huge news story is a waste if you don’t have an
audience to appreciate it. As other news
providers learn of a big scoop they will plagiarize it and make it their
own. Copyrights are almost impossible to
enforce on the Internet when the offenders are either off shore or don’t have
deep pockets.
The whole media thing will somehow shake out but where it
ultimately goes is anyone’s guess.
Comments
Right now me and Dad have noticed *he even has his own timeline he worked on for 5 years that links the bible and secular history really well and I only read some of it because it's long*
We have noticed the reason why we are having this *media* war is because we are transitioning to a global currency and once the US Dollar is dumped the Media will be into the electronic Amero and tout it off.
There are two groups fighting for world control and that's the rich bankers who are afraid to change their ways so they *adapt* to the new rules and the Communist Marxist who want to steal from the rich bankers and form mind control programs on the population and use us as guinea pigs in experiments.
That's all I am going to say for now but keep an eye out on these forces as we head towards a one world system.
Both sides are working on *the cloud* where eventually YOU won't even have a computer that you own.
You will have the box but all you're data and records will be in a far away server that they control. You put you're records in the hands of either communist brothers to control the access or rich greedy bankers who don't give a rip about you.
No individual businesses anymore that actually do care will survive the globalism.