New Media’s Golden Age“This is the beauty of the new media: it isn’t so transitory as newspapers and TV. Good stuff sticks around and people email it to friends and it slowly floods the country. What the new media age also means is that there won’t be newspapers to send reporters to cover the next war, but there will be 6 million teenage girls blogging about their plans for the weekend.”
—Garrison Keillor, radio yarn-teller, wordguy and author, 2009
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Interesting thought -- if no reporters rush to cover war, will war continue? Think of the tree falling in the woods or, better, a two-year-old being put in his room to throw his tantrum without an audience. I know, I know -- yes, the war would probably continue and the atrocities would be greater because evil unconstrained by the lie that "Nobody is watching--go ahead" is generally very evil indeed. Still, we can't argue that most people, nations, and causes feed on the attention provided by media. Otherwise, teenage girls wouldn't bother posting their weekend plans.
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