Phil Meyer Notes End of Newspaper Monopolies
Here is a headline of a Phlip Meyer commentary over at Grade the News:
Newspapers can’t maintain monopoly profits because they’ve lost their monopolies
And the subhead:
‘Newspapers are stuck in the old hunter-gatherer model of journalism’
Meyer, the author of The Vanishing Newspaper, was the subject of an IM Interview here at PJNet. Watch for tomorrow’s IM Interview with Raul Ramirez of public radio’s KQED in San Francisco. A key quote:
I believe that “okay podcasting” will find its place as an option that we choose to exercise at times. But I also believe that insightful, well edited, well produced, informative, well researched, fair-minded storytelling and journalism will be not just be an option, but a necessity. I don’t believe that young folk walking around with white earpieces connected to a white device have any less of a need for information to help them cope, to inspire them and educate them than folk who get sound via a transmitter tower.
