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June 27, 2009
Bill Grimes Responds to Paul Talbot
Good thoughts, Paul. It seems to me that media both new and old are making a good contribution in the covering the Iran election uprising (not a "revolution" -- see Jacuqes Barzun From Dawn To Decadence, p.3) protesting the government's efforts to block information and to curtail new technology distribution as Paul points out.
Last night I watched PBS which turned its program into a computer screen -- video and cell phone pictures were being put on the screen live and Twitter texts were being typed on the screen in real time. PBS reporters and commentators added context and other video form foreign sources so that the experience was of having the best of all media on one screen at the same time.
I thought it was a powerful example of how traditional and new media can in concert provide a social good that exceeds in power and information what either could accomplish alone. Now think if NY Times and PBS teamed up in this effort or were one news gathering company. We would have seen everything we did on PBS but we would have had the added benefit of NY Times correspondents in the region (actually PBS did get an interview with a NY Times reportre) but we could have seen scrolling across the bottom of the screen comments from many other Times correspondents and even bloggers. We could have been directed by text to NY Times archives and it could have been, because of more content and more creatively packaged on- screen video, an even better information/news/commentary product.
Posted by Charles Warner at June 27, 2009 11:36 AM
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