Well, not quite… but close enough according to the new Gallup poll quoted here. (via Glenn)
I do enjoy the computer-oriented term “Legacy Media” because it makes me think that New Reactionary drivel like this Newsday opinion piece will soon go the way of the parallel port with “Fear of Blogging” replacing “Fear of Flying” as the number one neurosis of the leisure class. The factual inaccuracies of this article have been fisked elsewhere. Why do it twice? Or three times? (The view from on high here.) Make that four times… and more.
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1. Catherine:I don’t have time to do the math, but these figures have to include a “generational shift” in trust of the media that began with baby boomers.
Last winter my editor on Shadow Syndromes told me baby boomers have never trusted books the way our parents did.
This caused an important change in publishing practices, because baby boomers routinely bought (and buy) something like 3 different books on any given subject they needed to know about.
So, for instance, if you were a pregnant baby boomer you didn’t just buy “What to Expect When You’re Expecting.”
You bought two other books on pregnancy, too.
Same with parenting.
You didn’t just buy Spock, the way our parents did. You bought Penelope Leach, Barry Brazelton and Spock.
Baby boomers don’t have “bibles.”
Sep 22, 2004 - 12:37 pm 2. Catherine:I don’t have time to do the math, but these figures have to include a “generational shift” in trust of the media that began with baby boomers.
Last winter my editor on Shadow Syndromes told me baby boomers have never trusted books the way our parents did.
This caused an important change in publishing practices, because baby boomers routinely bought (and buy) something like 3 different books on any given subject they needed to know about.
So, for instance, if you were a pregnant baby boomer you didn’t just buy “What to Expect When You’re Expecting.”
You bought two other books on pregnancy, too.
Same with parenting.
You didn’t just buy Spock, the way our parents did. You bought Penelope Leach, Barry Brazelton and Spock.
Baby boomers don’t have “bibles.”
Sep 22, 2004 - 12:38 pm 3. David Thomson:ìI do enjoy the computer-oriented term “Legacy Media” because it makes me think that New Reactionary drivel like this Newsday opinion piece will soon go the way of….î
Danny Schechter is a moron. Itís the ìsoonî that Iím worried about. Are we referring to a time before November 2nd? No, we are not. In the meantime, Schechter influences a lot of readers. That is why I refuse to be complacent. The liberal media will throw the kitchen sink at President Bush from now until election day.
Sep 22, 2004 - 12:41 pm 4. Warthog:Oh, oh. The right wing attack machine.
I’m starting to figure out why the lefties hate Fox so much. It’s because most of the news types will occasionally challenge a talking head to provide back-up for a statement, and usually don’t tolerate the off topic rants that cram every talking point into a single breath.
Based on the Rather reactions the worst possible “right wing attack” is to interfere with the message.
Sep 22, 2004 - 1:49 pm 5. Mantic:Legacy Media…
Nice term, yet don’t be too hasty to condemn the print media. Lot’s of people like to sit down and actually read from paper-based media. Lot’s of people also don’t want to have to read and prefer to get their news in the most passive way possible (couch potato style).
I think what the blogosphere has done is make finding the latest news and opinion a real-time event, with caveats on the opinion. With all of the quick response, comes quick errors and quick fixes. What the blogosphere gives us is another alternative, not a replacement. The media consumption market just got bigger. The overall capacity of hearts and minds just got bigger.
Sep 22, 2004 - 4:01 pm 6. Terrye:They can say what the will but bloggers don’t get paid 7 million a year to be right, Dan Rather does and if I want to sey he didn’t earn it I will.
Sep 22, 2004 - 6:06 pm 7. photoncourier.blogspot.com:“Legacy media”…a nice phrase.
Although…the way the term “legacy system” is usually used, it refers to a piece of software that may be cumbersome, inefficient, unpleasant to use, and hard to maintain…but it does something useful enough that you need to keep it around until it can be replaced.
Sep 22, 2004 - 8:13 pm 8. Gnostic Surface:Legacy Media, indeed. I saw a comment on LGF, IIRC, promoting someone else’s term: Legacy American Media Establishment. A much less elegant phrase, but the acronym is nearly irresistable.
Sep 23, 2004 - 8:41 am