tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212152.post-1152185537382626322006-07-06T12:07:00.001+01:002008-05-11T15:47:13.358+01:002008-05-11T15:47:13.358+01:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1595550542/globalgrowtho-21?creative=6394&amp;camp=1406&amp;adid=0H1DX26AYA61C57S9ZC2&amp;link_code=as1"><img style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0pt 0pt 0px 5px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1288/553/320/glenn.jpg" title="Buy this Book" border="0" /></a>Some journalists are trying to make sense of what is happening here, as blogging Davids take the story along ahead of media Goliaths. The best book on the subject is <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1595550542/globalgrowtho-21?creative=6394&amp;camp=1406&amp;adid=0H1DX26AYA61C57S9ZC2&amp;link_code=as1">An Army of Davids</a>, subtitled <span style="font-style: italic;">"How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths"</span>, by Glenn Reynolds. This is the 21<span style="font-size:78%;">st</span> century, the days of media conglomerates making the news in a top-down Fordist fashion are over. Boutique news sources will proliferate.<br /><br />The <span style="font-style: italic;">"news"</span> is no longer what Paxman says it is, the news is whatever is disseminated to a wide audience, Big Media is going to be disintermediated when it falls down because technology has drastically reduced the cost of dissemination. Failing to hold our political class to account is <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">the</span> failing of Big Media in Britain.<br /><br />If Prescott was a soap-star on a second-rate TV show he would have had more scrutiny of his sleazy affairs than he has had to date.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Does the media have it's priorities right?<br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /> <a href="http://messagespace.advertserve.com/advertpro/servlet/click/zone?zid=70&pid=5&lookup=true&position=1" target="_top"> <img src="http://messagespace.advertserve.com/advertpro/servlet/view/banner/image/zone?zid=70&pid=5&position=1" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" alt="Advertise on this site with MessageSpace" /> </a></div>Guido Fawkeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15091277669318213298noreply@blogger.com