News?

I haven't bought a newspaper for ages, don't listen to The Today Programme, but I do look forward to David Smith's del.icio.us bookmarks dropping into my aggregator every morning with baited breath.

[And before you start going on about echo chambers I am with Loic when he says that if news is important enough it will find him.]

Comments

[Dan Thornton]

You might appreciate my latest post, considering I don't read papers, barely watch TV news, and yet knew details on the U.S. earthquake before news organisations.

I don't think anyone has explained that it's not enough to just get on the web because print is falling. But once you're there, you have to keep evolving pretty rapidly.

[Euan Semple]

Spookily I have just finished reading your post and thoroughly agreeing as I have before and no doubt will again!

[Bob H]

Hi Euan,

I don't own a television, never buy papers, the only news I get is from BBC Radio 1 on my way to and from work. Yet some how I still roughly know what is going on, the news finds me as well.

I think if we look at the world prior to print people still new what was going on through social interaction. Ok, it may be something that is diluted and bias, but how is that any different to the mass media? The answer is that it isn't yet by digesting now from a wider and more disparate audience we are able to get a more balanced view than from the old village pump. If something is important and interesting I will look at it from a number of directions and I always find myself checking multiple sources when I see something interesting.

Bob