The future of news media: Cannonfire, Rawstory, Bradblog

These new news sources are stepping into the void left by the old MSM. With reporters digging deep they are breaking new stories. Watch the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN slip away. Here come the new kids on the block. Watch them grow.

Help them when ever you can.

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2005/12/deeper-into-wilkesmzm-scandals-updated.html


www.rawstory.com

www.bradblog.com

Particularly after they served us so poorly in the theft of the election by bush both in 2000 (Florida) and in 2004 (Ohio).

Regarding the writing at the above sites, here is what is said at The Longtail, a blog by the managing editor of Wired Magazine:

The folly of zero-sum thinking

Rich Karlgaard, one of my favorite writers, now has a blog. Here he explains why zero-sum thinking is the "world's worst disease". Excerpt: "Meanwhile, the most energetic, original and positive writing has been migrating to the Web and to blogs. No surprise here. Anybody who creates a blog is: (a) an entrepreneur and thus probably NOT a zero-sum thinker; (b) a producer first and a consumer second. These two attributes alone guarantee that the blogger probably has a more accurate view of the world, and how it really works, than does the zero-sum thinker toiling away at his Mainstream Media position."

Here, for those who enjoy watching them fall, are a few links to blogs that are tracking the fall in their stock prices. This is also from The Longtail:

Stock performance over the past 12 months:

* Belo (BLC): -11.6%
* Emmis (EMS): +8.7%
* Fisher (FSCI): -3.1%
* Gannett (GCI): -24.2%
* Gray (GTN): -38%
* Hearst-Argyle (HTV): -6.9%
* Media General (MEG): -17%
* Meredith (MDP): -2.4%
* New York Times (NYT): -30.7%
* Sinclair (SBGI): +29.1%
* Tribune (TRB): -24.8%
* Young (YBTVA): -80.2%

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Average: -16.8%
Dow: +4%

See that blog at:

http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/

For those of you who like stock charts, you will see the above companies in chart form here:

http://donatacom.com/archives/00001125.htm





Cher

p.s. note that Sinclair bucks the trend. Those who have been around DU for a year will recall that last year, Sinclair was hitting a low. They had been downtrending for quite some time. They hit their low at the time they broadcast the anti-Kerry program right before the elections. My point is that they may appear to be bucking the trend but they really are not since they are coming back from a low.

Great post. I didn't realize how web based the story really was.

you've failed to mention, Eschaton, Huffington's Post, Buzzflash, Daily Kos, Takebackthemedia.com, America Blog, Talking Points Memo, firedoglake,etc, etc.

Not to mention the DEMOCRATICUNDERGROUND which in the end is a think tank utilized by MANY Blogs to further their own sites..

Some of these sites are actually KILLING the veracity of the left wing media using the same techniques the right wing does, or tabloid media, or even porno sites..

Battering people with popups, even major news sources figured out that people left in DROVES when they did that..

The New Media is anything BUT simply adding, "Blahblah.com HAS LEARNED.." to teasers.. Speculation is EASY.. SmokingGUN for instance has FACTS that are indisputable.

Just my opinion but I don't know anything, my site just basically invented Political Flash attack ads, and was formed right here on the DU back in 2000..

http://informationclearinghouse.com "news you wont find on cnn.

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It's on my email list. Stories reported there are later picked up by
MSM. Their ahead of the curve very independent and rarely debunked. Last year when a soldier shot a wounded Iraqi in the head MSM wouldn't air the complete murder of this Iraqi. Informationclearinghouse did. Just last week ICH aired "Burning of Falluja" which later was picked up by MSM. It's a great site and I urge you to visit it.I wouldn't steer you wrong.The other sites mentioned here are Great also and I routinely check them all out.
Thanks for the input...