Newsy Type Stuff

In his article The press becomes the press-sphere, Jarvis discusses how news reporting has changed because of the internet.  He explains how news changed from a linear system (story to journalist to writer to editor to print) to a large interconnected system he calls the "press sphere."  The press sphere is affected by many different factors including companies, readers, external news sources, and comments. They're all connected... like some sort of WEB that spans the entire WIDE WORLD or something.  All kidding aside, I actually agree with pretty much everything that he said.  I am a firm believer that the internet will replace all other media as the main source of news and entertainment in 10 to 20 years (at least it will if the FCC and Google can actually make this free internet thing work).  All these people connected to such a collaborative medium as the internet, we're going to see a huge shift from larger organizations (such as news channels) being the main source of information to individuals and small collections of people.  Heck, there are already great examples of this.  The already viral nature of how media is being shared on the internet holds the key to fast and accurate news reporting from every possible angle.  Much like the videos from the numerous revolutions in the middle east helped actually present the news to the world, the future of news will center around people with their smart phones (or whatever) capturing the news as it happens.  It is much harder to miss a story when everybody can report, not just a select part of the population.  

Anyways... Yeah.  Go Internet!