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Online Journalism Review The Daily Eagle Aircraft Flyer

"The main issue here, though, is what to do with professional mainstream journalists who can't tell the difference between head-on and angled impact, who turn speculation into truth, who haven't heard of internationally famous people and events, who advocate whiplash protection to save drivers from blunt force injury, who won't yield to compelling evidence, and who are easily outwitted by a bunch of Chevy drivers thinking aloud at an obscure Web site.

Here's an idea: start a new newspaper where these journalists can pool their skills. Call it the Daily Eagle Aircraft Flyer."

The New York Times Online Journalism Comes of Age
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"Even as dot-coms continue to crash around us, it is easy to lose sight of the Internet's impact. After five years inside the cocoon of an intense start- up, TheStreet.com, I have emerged to find common activities transformed by electronic connection. Not least of these, journalism has swiftly evolved to handle the rapid emergence of a new medium.

Despite the early concerns about quality and despite its sometimes raw nature, the Internet has become a trusted medium for the delivery of news. Not that all news sources on the Internet are to be trusted, of course. As with the print and broadcast media, some are more reputable than others."
redux [05.22.01]
MediaChannel.Org The Myth In Journalism
"The information model of journalism, already in great disrepair, will be dismantled by the marriage of myth and new media. News is losing whatever franchise it had on whatever information is. Information is no longer some scarce resource, a commodity that newspeople can cull and sell. Our society rapidly moved from information explosion to information overload. Information is everywhere. From online events calendars to live, continuous congressional coverage, anyone can give and get information online. If news is only information, news is nothing.

Yet information overload offers opportunities to news: as myth. In the throes of all this information, the need for myth increases. People grapple with the meaning of rapidly changing times. People seek out ways in which they can organize and explain the world. People need stories."

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