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The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism
The war of words between the old and the new media is heating up some more. Eric Schmidt has an op-ed in Rupert Murdoch's WSJ (ironic, that) explaining to newspapers how Google wants to, and is trying to, help them. Kara Swisher's BoomTown column translates and deconstructs Schmidt's argument, hilariously. A few days back, the Washington Post's Michael Gerson became the latest journo to bemoan the death of journalism at the hands of the Internet; and investigative blogger Radley Balko quickly called B.S. on Gerson's claim that (all?) bloggers simply steal from (all?) hard-working, honest, ethical print journalists.
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Sometimes whole thriving markets disappear because of technological advances. Journalism might be such a disappearing market. As a software developer, I look forward to the day when copyrights are abolished and the software sales market disappears.
However, the lack of a working market doesn't mean the society doesn't want to do something. Thus, we have governments and private sponsors funding scientific research and culture. Some countries are already taxing citizens to fund journalism, TV and radio. A similar model should be eventually be applied to software development, popular music, movies and books as well.
On a throne of feces surrounded by a diarrhea moat, Vlad rules over his kingdom of filth. LEAVE THE BABY MARTICOCK ALONE AND go #$#^ yourself lockwood
Troll, yeah. Murdock was hardly alone. He's just the bogeyman put forth by blubbering ideologues who lap up a different flavor of unreality.
And, no, I'm not right wing, but I'm sure in the monochrome nanoverse which is all your blinkered mind can bear to perceive I'm some drooling FoxNooz fanboy.
And you know who runs GE, a white guy. As for Obama, GE's big guy, whom I will refer to as cracker-man, spoke to some birthers who convinced them that Obama's half-white, which made him an improvement over Hillary Clinton whom Larry King once described as "all woman". Larry King got ripped off by Bernie Madoff, who did business with Kevin Bacon.
Did I win? Free associating can be fun, but it isn't always the best of evidence.
Welfare states collapse faster, and harm more people on the way by impoverishing them first.
If you look back through history, nearly every major civilization collapse can be credibly attributed to an overgrown and wasteful "socialistic" government.
It can also be accurately and credibly said that a state has NEVER collapsed from too much Freedom and Capitalism.
So which should we strive for? My money is on Freedom and Capitalism.
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
If only you had not posted as anonymous coward, I would applaud your assessment.
I get a daily chuckle at my ultra liberal nutbag colleagues.
Lately, they've been toning down their excitement for all-things Obama. I guess they aren't quite at the Pelosi level of nutbag-itude.