{"id":1846,"date":"2008-11-20T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2008-11-20T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T14:34:09","slug":"the-future-of-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/20\/the-future-of-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of &#8220;News&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Observer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2008\/media\/crapulent-news-network?page=1%2C0\">has an interesting few pages<\/a> on CNN&#8217;s enormous spending on things that have very little, if anything, to do with actual newsgathering or analysis.\u00c2\u00a0 And it reminds me that I can&#8217;t remember the last time I watched CNN or turned to CNN.com for actual news.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve tuned into it to catch a live feed, but that was probably more a function of being the next channel in the progression than anything else.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 To be sure, CNN has a greater actual capacity to do original reporting around the planet than most any other organization I can think of.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet for all of that reach, they manage to filter it in such a way that it&#8217;s about a half inch deep by the time it hits your screen.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Their solution to that?\u00c2\u00a0 Will.i.am fake holograms and prettier graphics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Observer has an interesting few pages on CNN&#8217;s enormous spending on things that have very little, if anything, to do with actual newsgathering or analysis.\u00c2\u00a0 And it reminds me that I can&#8217;t remember the last time I watched CNN or turned to CNN.com for actual news.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve tuned into it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}