Old Media vs New Media
In last few weeks the Gleaner has been rolling out quite a number of blogs. One of the latest blogs was Science and Technology. The author's name give as 'parris' had an interesting topic last week, Old Media vs New Media. In he looked at how technology how technology , in this case twitter had change he coverage of events. He event comment that is despite his own views on blogs, here was he writing one. With Micheal Jackson's death, coverage again was an Issue. While the major TV stations BBC, CNN, Fox and news papers like NYTimes could not provide or confirm his death, a website TMZ. Com was on top of the situation from get go and never let up Referenced TV misses out as gossip website TMZ reports Michael Jackson's death first (LA TIMES) OldMedia vs New Media (Gleaner Blogs)