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In my post<\/a> yesterday, I included a quote from Barack Obama that merits further attention.<\/p>\n

Obama is arguably the most net-savvy world leader, having leveraged new media tools to energize voters and donors in the last election. But, even he has expressed concerns<\/a> about the impact of new media on the quality of information being delivered and discussed by the public.<\/p>\n

I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This remark seems to tie into a posting I wrote last May, when I referred to Twitter as Coffee Crisp<\/a>. That posting in turn provided a link to Nick Carr’s piece in Atlantic Monthly called “Is Google Making Us Stupid<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

For a generation raised on-line, how does in-depth analysis and solid information get funded? How can “serious” writing, news, stories hope to be heard above the noise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my post yesterday, I included a quote from Barack Obama that merits further attention. Obama is arguably the most net-savvy world leader, having leveraged new media tools to energize voters and donors in the last election. But, even he has expressed concerns about the impact of new media on the quality of information being …<\/p>\n

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