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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:52 am |
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| joe wrote: |
| he claims that the news/entertainment media is a quality filter, and the democratization of the web has eliminated it. |
It is a perfectly valid point, which is why traditional media channels still continue to exist and thrive when they realize that their primary role is basically as a quality filter rather than the sole source of distribution.
I've heard it argued that this is why certain forms of traditional media -- like the newspaper -- however, just cannot seem to survive, since the newspaper doesn't provide a qualtiy filter, but rather thrived on being well... the sole source of the news.
See also: why the console games industry continues to beat the living shit out of the pc games industry. |
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