Talks about the presidential election in 2000, 9/11, Trent Lott, shuttle accident. Things are changing.
Old school journalism: a lecture.
New journalism: more like a seminar or a conversation.
Your readers, your audience, know more about the world than what you know. When journalists grasp this and builds on this, things are going to happen.
Assembling an amateur newsroom. Amateurs send photos to NASA. NASA understands the new landscape better than many news organizations.
Phonecams - we get pictures from new places.
Bob Woodward interviews D. Rumsfeld 9/11 and the Pentagon publishes the transcript on the web. New sense of openness that we will see more of in the future.
Three scenarios:
1. Copyright cartel + the state = total control. Not a likely outcome.
2. Total anarchy. Old/big media goes away. Not really a good solution. Truth/trust are a problem here.
3. Melding of new and old media. His favourite. It can be done; it’s not simple. He’s working on a book, making a case for it.
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