Two good points from Jeremy Wagstaff on "The Future of News," taken from a column he wrote for the Jakarta Post:
"First, there are no consumers of news anymore. In fact, you've probably heard this said a lot, here and elsewhere that, in the era of MySpace, Wikipedia, OhmyNews and citizen journalism, everyone is a journalist, and therefore a producer, of news. No one is just a consumer.
Second, there is no news. Or at least there is no longer a traditional, established and establishment definition of what is news. Instead we have information. Some of it moving very fast, so it looks like news. But still information."
The big networks seem to recognize that news as we know it is dead, and they place their bets instead on "social news." Earlier this year News Corp. acquired Newroo. And now, last Friday, MSNBC (Microsoft and GE) bought Newsvine. another social news-start-up.
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