Fourth Estate 2.0

Posted on October 25, 2007
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The old days of 3 television networks and a homogeneous media may have been the exception rather than the standard. Take a look at the newpaper lies during the Civil War, for example - the spin was actually worse than today’s.

A globally distributed news media is probably better in potential than one global rag, no matter how scrupulous. How we sort the wheat from the chaff is still evolving, and memeorandum’s one piece of it.

 

What are memeorandum’s top 100 sources?

The ascent of blogs and other independent publishers has expanded and revitalized political dialogue in the United Status. While the “mainstream” media remains the primary source of factural reporting, they no longer own the agenda.

What exactly are these sources? The memeorandum Leaderboard, launched today, identifies 100 of them, ranking sources simply by how much they’ve appeared on memeorandum in the past month.

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