Comments on: What Do You See As The Future For Major Media Companies?

By: Bill Cammack

Bill Cammack — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:16:10 +0000

Hey Sara. :)

That’s just the thing. Even though you have a lot of unreliable sources on the internet, you have A LOT OF SOURCES on the internet. You can even go directly to the AP if you like.

Also, if you follow someone and find them to be reputable, you can bookmark them as one of your go-to sources for when things happen. Basically, you can roll-your-own news team, with specialists in Sports, Politics, etc.

A lot of people are tired of the bias. I’d think that even MORE would be tired of the sensationalism. Ultimately, the best deal is to have CHOICES so that you can decide for yourself where you’d like to get your information instead of having someone decide *for* you because they’re the only game in town.

By: Bill Cammack

Bill Cammack — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:08:16 +0000

Interesting ideas, Vergel. :) They’re definitely going to have to do something to supplement their apparently-decreasing ROI.

I’d also like to see what’s going to happen to the people that end up getting downsized. I think that if they’re smart, they’ve already built up a fan base and enough social cred to start their own sites and attempt to monitize them, partially in the ways you mentioned.

By: Sara Thacker

Sara Thacker — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:04:14 +0000

I haven’t read a physical paper in about 10 years. I don’t watch network news because they only give you what they want to see. So you might find some non-truths on the internet but you can browse to your heart’s content and look for people’s opinions and what they saw as the truth, if you watch CNN, NBC, ABC or CBS they are telling you what they want you to hear and their bias is there even if they think they are unbiased. I haven’t watched a national news program in it’s entirety in about twelve or thirteen years. Local news only gets watched when the weather is bad, otherwise there is no point because they are only going to sensationalize the items that they think will give them ratings and the things that are important to me will be ignored.

By: Vergel E

Vergel E — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:02:20 +0000

IMHO, The next wave will be Content Monetization. The future Major Media Companies will be the ones who make their content ‘free-r’, have better search heuristics, generate personalized content, and allow us to flock to it, discuss it, remix it, and promote it as we feel fit.

Companies that don’t embrace the web 2.0 technologies that enhance content monetization are on the way out. Many (currently) major media companies are not interested in relaxing copyright restrictions, which is a major part of an enhanced online experience. These media companies are going to be eclipsed by the content creators and aggregation websites who embrace tagging, meta-data, etc.

But on the otherside, the major companies who embrace it, and new companies that enhance content will have a bright future.

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