Liberal Paranoia at its best - A Look at Media in 2014.

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[ChewyGasMan]

In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC?

http://www.letitblog.com/epic/

[ChewyGasMan]

This is great diversion if you have a few minutes to spend studing how the paranoia of some (i.e., liberals) deals with the new strength of bloggers and Internet technology disseminating the news.

I think it shows how much they fear the automation of news and believe it will corrput it, like it's not corrupted already. What would the news be like without a liberal spin?

I welcome this new concept of newsgathering, even though it is fictional. What are your thoughts?

[spodefly]

BTTT

[sitetest]

Pretty cool.

If scary.

[RhoTheta]

Bump for later. Interesting presentation style.

[Huck]

I got bored at 2007 and bailed out. Took too long to develop. And anyway, he lost me with the Google Grid. It didn't make any sense. It did make me want to check out Tivo, though.

[KateatRFM]

I've heard it before, back when "zines" were our obsession (pre-Web) -- we were going to make "slick" magazines irrelevant by becoming shallow, narrow, stupid and childish only very popular. For some reason, anything that a lot of people like and control is the end of the world as we know it.

I believe it was Spider Robinson who said "95% of Science Fiction is crap. 95% of EVERYTHING is crap." And I will be willing to bet that no matter what turn the world takes, there will be people left behind who think the new world stinks.

And by the way, the world as I know it has ended about five times since I was old enough to notice. And so what?

[My2Cents]

So, their main concern is that the NY Times will go belly-up, and with it, all vestiges of "journalistic ethics"?...All I can say is, 2014 can't get here soon enough.

[bewitched]

I had a weird reaction to the presentation. But I don't think it was the one that the presentation was intending it to be. Instead of scaring me, I was excited about the progress of information technology and the extincts of NYT.

[thulldud]

I believe it was Spider Robinson who said "95% of Science Fiction is crap. 95% of EVERYTHING is crap."

Ted Sturgeon. And his number was 90%.

[Woodworker]

Wild. "EPIC" provides everything from FR to DU!

[thulldud]

Exactly. They're worried that the internet will wipe out the "balanced", "nuanced" coverage of the SMSM.

They shouldn't. Even in the EPIC-dominated hell they see in the future, they can still get their NYT fix if they're willing to sacrifice a few trees! Oh, the humanity!