I See An America

Link: http://www.iseeanamerica.com

"I read the news today, oh boy!" is passe. It's time has come and gone. Traditional media is dead, long live the Internet. The news that Michael Jackson died was first broken on TMZ.COM....that's .COM. Wolf Blitzer was all serious on CNN that unconfirmed reports were saying Jackson was dead, but CNN could not as yet confirm them, a stance that went on for over 30 minutes!

Media is confirmed by a major news event. CNN was defined in Iraq War The First as we watched breathlessly while rockets attacked Israel. CNN still held the throne during 9/11. But the Internet has been growing and eating up market share and ad revenues, forcing the traditional media to scale back at the same time Internet news has been scaling up. In the last few years, Yahoo! Sports has broken several sports stories about steroids in baseball and recruiting scandals at USC. The Internet has been knocking on the door of news respectability, waiting for the next big story.

When the Jackson story broke, people rushed to the Internet, not TV, and the Internet did NOT crash...there were brief outages in certain areas, but there was always another site to follow the story on....and at the end of the day, the Internet had the story and they had it first and they had it right. So let's change the lyrics to "I twittered the news today, oh boy!" RIP, Michael.