Monday, January 10, 2005

The Future of The Times

In a BusinessWeek article on the possible demise of The New York Times, Orville Schell contends that The Times is being eroded not only by its own journalistic screw-ups but also by profound changes in communications technology:

The Roman Empire that was mass media is breaking up, and we are entering an almost-feudal period where there will be many more centers of power and influence. It's a kind of disaggregation of the molecular structure of the media.

Perhaps the futurists at the Museum of Media History have got it right.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous11:03 PM

    The Times has become such an obvious liberal propaganda forum that it is loosing credibility with the center. If they don't switch back to at least attempting nutratrality or a center view, then they will become more irrelivant. The candidates they endorse in our local N.Y. Times paper consistently loose.

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