Last night, I was trying to find out information about the horrifying situation and in Iran. I turned to CNN which had Larry King interviewing bikers. MSNBC had a documentary about prisons. FoxNews had the Huckabee show, talking about credit cards.
Then I went to HuffingtonPost, TalkingPointsmemo.com and AndrewSullivan, all of whom had real-time YouTube videos from the protests, Twitter-based reporting, pictures posted on Facebook, great analysis. All of that led to some crowing by the bloggers that the Iran debacle shows the bankruptcy of mainstream media.
If we can figure out how to tap into the best of both media forms, we’ll enter a golden age of journalism rather than the dark ages.