Last year I read The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture ( for more info and reviews go to http://www.amazon.com/Search-Rewrote-Business-Transformed-Culture/dp/1591840880). This book credited Google for inovating the internet. It had a section on online-news. It applouded the expanding internet for making information easier to access as well as more user friendly. But 4 years later The State of the News Media 2007 the judgment on the the online news is not so opptomistic. Although, it applauds the online enviorment for rapidly advancing it does not give it great marks. It speaks about how different news media have different strenghts online and how none have all strenghts or all weaknesses across all categories. This helped me look from a greater distance at something that has become very much part of my normal part: nyt.com. Although the analysis gave good regard to the NYT I could not help but feel defensive. The website, which I love enven more then the paper- has no faults in my books. but the analysis made me realize- that yes- even the nyt has certain problems. Although i like watching the multi-media on the nyt- it is true it is lacking- the video clips are not very common- but its a paper for petes sake. I personally like the news look of the website- it makes the reading feel more legitamete not like reading a fancy my-space page. The high marks of npr- made me want to visit that site more often.
I feel like this analysis is made more for historical references than modern critique. The authors have aknowledged that even through a couple months time the internet has vidly chaged- I hopw that in a couple of years I will be able to look back at this analysis and laugh. Its good to have these kinds of analysis becasue it can better help us appreciate the spped of the evolution of technology. This makes me want to read a report on the state of the interview when NYT and such sites just started. This was like 200 years ago cuz it sure dont feel like 5.
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