Dear Peter,
There is much confusion. Modern communication techniques do not substitute traditional ones; they complement them. Just like in my home, the TV, radio, email, SMS, IM, blogging, social networking, POTS and Skype are virtually going on at the same time. We even read newspapers. Each serves a different purpose.
I just launched my own PR blog to discuss such issues. If you get a chance, please take a look. www.paulseaman.eu
How about @thelegacymediaoutletsthatdontadaptaredyingwhileot
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But you can rule out any labeled retweets. And maybe we're overthinking this a bit much. I think the astute watchers of this era know what we're talking about and the rest probably aren't much interested anyway.
It also wouldn't hurt if we could revisit our grammar in the meantime.
Media ARE dying, folks, and perhaps they're dying because we are losing all the good copy editors!!!
Thanks, Peter, for reminding us about the dangers of overstatement. This is the danger of blog culture, I fear, and a world that just won't make time for the details and grey areas of life.
You are right, Peter, mediaisdying IS a misnomer. What's dying isn't the media, it's the traditional FORM of media as a one-way communications medium from source to audience via editorially-managed news organs, and the old-style editorial jobs it required. Perhaps it should be re-named mediaisevolving. The media that will survive and grow, as you point out, is the open-source media of individual transparent conversations among members of communities and wikis.
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