Future now in media

The great American newspaper is no longer. Died quite some time ago . A series of rather ignomininious deaths in cities great and small. Some minor contemporary versions still exist in out of the way markets were the advertising department does not run the editorial content. Advertising revenue versus quality objective news copy? Should be a no brainer.Quality , incisive reporting should win out over the advertising departments concerns every time. The opposite prevailed.The bottom line trumped the news content and the American newspaper is dead.... This is not really fresh news , as much as a portent of a new design for a 21st century newspaper not comprimised editiorially by advertising conflicts. A wake up call via the immediacy of breaking news via the internet has sounded clarian clear throughout the world , and all of the old dead tree dailies are taking heed. Note the interest in online versions of daily newspapers from the competent likes of the New York Times or Washington Post down to the local rabble of smaller market daily newspapers. Attempts at incorporating local news collected via internet sources and folded craftily into the modern online daily newspaper are mostly shots in the dark by most editors , and the internet savvy news consumer often ignores the daily newspaper as a primary news source all together , preferring the immediacy and objective internet news sources instead..... Owing half a century of printed newspaper consumption. Burp! I have a fairly good idea that the printed daily newspaper of the 21st century will be more of a local insert to the home delivered New York Times , Miami Herald , Los Angeles Times , or Washington Post , or dominant reginal newspapaper. Just as well! The smaller market dailies are akin to the weaker market professional sports teams. Less of a payroll , lousy ethics more often than not comprimised by political alliances or advertising concerns , and a style book , dumbed down for an elementary school graduate. Good riddance to this self aggrandizing media parasite , the smaller market American daily newspaper....Let us then consider the future of commercial television news. As Marlene Deitrich told Orson Welles in the noir classic A Touch Of Evil, " I've seen your future honey , you all washed up". Not that televised news ever really contained any items of newsworthy value anyways save Mister Collin's cat being saved from the large tree that it was stuck in. You get the drift , sizzle sold without any meat.Television news. In any event when the present plug in capacity of television becomes cable only next year , it will mark a complete departure from this most odious of all mediums for many of us still capable of thought " outside the box". I do not pretend to have in my posession any great intellectual capacity , and will not suffer any seperation anxiety from the loss of the television medium..... As for the Federal Communications Commission's decision to postpone a decision concerning the potential dual ownership of newspaper and television broadcast cross ownership , consider it as good as done. The ultimate decision is that the vested major media concerns will prevail and the dual ownership will be approved by our bought and sold elected politicians in Washington , D.C. . Only a matter of time , and a loss of already scarce local news , in this homogenous current state of affairs known as the good old USA. We live in a day and age where we need to keep our media sources under fine scrutiny and constant review , not enable the National media concerns to pull anymore wool over the eyes of the American public than they already do every day. Book Selling Time! We offer today a copy of an early volume on the dim black and white days of television by V.K. Zworkin entitled TELEVISION. published in 1940 and comprised of 648 pages , this volume represents an early technical study of the nascent medium. Yes , Felix The Cat was the first image broadcast on American television. Look it up!Best wishes to all.

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