War: A Defining Moment for Net News
Steve Outings Kolumne: War: A Defining Moment for Net News
( ....) Last Wednesday night found me sitting in front of the TV along with a laptop computer, simultaneously watching and listening to CNN and ABC broadcast reporting, and clicking around the world's top news Web sites. I found the Web component of my war-news consumption to be more satisfying, even on that first night. While TV anchors started repeating themselves and filling air time with their own theories when there was a temporarily lull of new information, the Web with its hundreds of available news channels offered a respite when TV news started to flounder.
Indeed, I found myself annoyed with the seemingly singular perspective of the major U.S. television network newscasts. I hungered for some alternative perspectives that TV failed to provide. If I was forced to choose between my TV or my PC for the duration of this war, I'd keep the computer. There's enough breaking-news video on the Web -- albeit not of broadcast quality -- that I wouldn't miss much, if anything.
This is not something I would have said until just recently. (...)
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( ....) Last Wednesday night found me sitting in front of the TV along with a laptop computer, simultaneously watching and listening to CNN and ABC broadcast reporting, and clicking around the world's top news Web sites. I found the Web component of my war-news consumption to be more satisfying, even on that first night. While TV anchors started repeating themselves and filling air time with their own theories when there was a temporarily lull of new information, the Web with its hundreds of available news channels offered a respite when TV news started to flounder.
Indeed, I found myself annoyed with the seemingly singular perspective of the major U.S. television network newscasts. I hungered for some alternative perspectives that TV failed to provide. If I was forced to choose between my TV or my PC for the duration of this war, I'd keep the computer. There's enough breaking-news video on the Web -- albeit not of broadcast quality -- that I wouldn't miss much, if anything.
This is not something I would have said until just recently. (...)
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Cyberwriter - 27. Mär, 00:02 - CyberCulture
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