Fourth Estate 2.0

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.

NYT gets hipper, drops Select pay content

NYT opens up its Select content, finally understanding that it can make loads more money by giving it away. Where have these people been the last decade? Anyway, Scott Rosenberg does the commentary, making good points about changing times and how to float with them.

Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch will own the Wall Street Journal - or as Web geeks might say, he’ll pwn it. Murdoch’s coming is nothing new to the journalist at large, plenty of them in other venues have had to decide if they can abide their owners’ mandates. Even so, Murdoch is an interesting player to watch because he’s not afraid to pull rabbits out of hats…