Richard Bailey beat me to it… but The Economist’s new media survey is still a great concise history of new media. There’s nothing too ground-breaking in there, but nevertheless it reassuringly provided me with a few tit-bits about new media’s background that I missed out on first-time around.
Specific highlights will follow, but general conclusions include:
- the survey would certainly help convey to Amanda Chapel the potential gravity of the new media shift in response to her comments here on Neville Hobson’s blog
- I love the irony spotted by Antony Mayfield regarding paywalled online content
- If nothing else, it reassured me that if I want to stay abreast of new media developments, then there is no better place than reading around the blogcircle itself.
Could media fragmentation have been predicted ? to come…..
In support of The Economist, there's an increasing need for that thing a weekly can provide over dailies (and, yes, blogs): perspective.
As for Amanda Chapel. Surely a man; and most likely a journalist, not a PR practitioner.
Posted by: Richard Bailey | April 24, 2006 at 09:02 PM
Yes and yes, Richard. For me, The Economist and Private Eye are great examples of traditional media doing what it does best.
Without thinking about it too much, this may have something to do with unique content. I couldn't imagine the Economist or PE as a fully online endeavor.
However, as much as I want to like The Week, I feel as a website it would be exactly the same.
AC? Definately a man. There's something about the phrasing of certain comments. ENOUGH!
Posted by: Simon Collister | April 24, 2006 at 09:55 PM