{"id":1280,"date":"2008-09-01T00:30:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T23:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2008-09-01T08:33:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T07:33:38","slug":"frank-rich-sees-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/09\/frank-rich-sees-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Rich sees the future&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">N<\/span><em><strong>YT<\/strong><\/em> columnist <strong>Frank Rich<\/strong>, who must lack a tiny bit of self-irony, takes aim at the &#8216;bloviators&#8217; covering the Obama campaign. But in the course of his musings a little internet-inspired doubt creeps in. : <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Journalists are still Americans \u2014 even if much of our audience doubts that \u2014 and in this time of grave uncertainty about our nation\u2019s future we may simply be as discombobulated as everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>We, too, are made anxious and fearful by hard economic times and the prospect of wrenching change. YouTube, the medium that has transformed our culture and politics, didn\u2019t exist four years ago.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Four years from now, it\u2019s entirely possible that some, even many, of the newspapers and magazines covering this campaign won\u2019t exist in their current form, if they exist at all. The Big Three network evening newscasts, and network news divisions as we now know them, may also be extinct by then.<\/p>\n<p>It is a telling sign that CBS News didn\u2019t invest in the usual sky box for its anchor, Katie Couric, in Denver. It is equally telling that CNN consistently beat ABC and CBS in last week\u2019s Nielsen ratings, and NBC as well by week\u2019s end. <\/p>\n<p>But now that media are being transformed at a speed comparable to the ever-doubling power of microchips, cable\u2019s ascendancy could also be as short-lived as, say, the reign of AOL. <\/p>\n<p>Andrew Rasiej, the founder of Personal Democracy Forum, which monitors the intersection of politics and technology, points out that when networks judge their success by who got the biggest share of the television audience, \u201cthey are still counting horses while the world has moved on to counting locomotives.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Web, in its infinite iterations, is eroding all 20th-century media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Say it ain&#8217;t so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT columnist Frank Rich, who must lack a tiny bit of self-irony, takes aim at the &#8216;bloviators&#8217; covering the Obama campaign. But in the course of his musings a little internet-inspired doubt creeps in. : Journalists are still Americans \u2014 even if much of our audience doubts that \u2014 and in this time of grave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1774,1776,1778,132,39,1779,1775,385,1777,258],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-abc","tag-andrew-rasiej","tag-aol","tag-cbs-news","tag-cnn","tag-frank-rich","tag-katie-couric","tag-nbc","tag-personal-democracy-forum","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}