I’ll keep paying for NYT delivery and would even pay a few bucks more for access to the web site, if the model changes. You and I get the difference between professional and amateurs providing news, context and commentary.

But for breaking news, I’m happy with the new paradigm. MSM got it wrong just as much as citizen journos. The new model gives the consumer access to the original content (press releases, FDNY radio transmissions, video feeds) so they can make up their own minds about what’s happening.

The White House press corps is livid that Obama’s flacks are letting the world see the advisories, releases and speeches that used to be advanced to the few lucky enough to be credentialed. The secret is out: they weren’t really sniffing out news for all those years but being handed “exclusives.”

As a news consumer, I’m okay with the chaos surrounding this new reality. But I do feel badly that so many media pros are out of work as the media world we knew disintegrates.

Or, at least they can get blog posts or Tweets about something. Whether the story is accurate or is disseminated with even a modicum of minimal journalistic standards is another story.
Just because it’s on Twitter doesn’t make it so.
The more the merrier, but if we are going to rely on a brigade of citizen journos to supplant or even replace MSM, then we are in big trouble.

73s

Gosset-WP