This all comes down to the economics of attention, which I have regularly brought up with Dan (as has Seth, independently) , and without which, no proper understanding of media can be done. There could well be hundreds of questions, but we just have to trust CSM for picking the more interesting or representative ones. They had guts for picking a question by a person accusing her of anti-American loyalties (which was likely first spread by conservative radio host Debbie Schlussel).

Indeed: those processes are no longer under one roof. But as one person captures an image somewhere in the world, you still need media processes to kick in place. In this case, the disseminating was as much via citmedia.org as it was by flickr.com. And the context of the story, whatever the photographer thought it might be, is now just an example of someone taking a picture.

Carlo, I also don’t think the big media will be buried. They definitely do need to change (and there are signs it’s happening).

How many good articles and photos (that are articles “written” with a different tecnique) we – journalists of the so called mainstream media – are losing. We could do better, especially here in Italy. No media one will ever be able to cover everything happening in the world, but we can do better, indeed! Here the problem are either old journalists and old editors and old publishers.

Let’s hope something is going to change soon (I don’t mean that the mainstream media are going to to be buried, but they should change, in their own interest). Meanwhile you know that you have a faithful and silent reader in Italy, Dan. Good luck