James Lileks on Old Media
The Daily Peg pulls together some choice zingers from Star Tribune columnist and prolific blogger and ephemera archivist, James Lileks on the impending implosion of the old media.
Blogs haven’t toppled old media. The foundations of Old Media were
rotten already. The new media came along at the right time. Put it this
way: you’ve see films of old buildings detonated by precision
demolitionists. First you see the puffs of smoke – then the building
just hangs there for a second, even though every column that held it up
has been severed. We’ve been living in that second for years, waiting
for the next frame. Well, here it is. Roll tape. Down she goes. And
when the dust settles we will be right back where we were 100 years
ago, with dozens of fiercely competitive media outlets throwing elbows
to earn your pennies.
