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i find it astonishing that bloggers and commenters do not reflect further on this and do not dig below the surface.
Factual news gathering, processing and distribution is for and will stay with the professionals. obviously it has to be financed and payed for. only companies with revenue through indirect business model can do this and are in fact forced to do it.

on the other hand online publishing does not - as that remark might suggest - move into the hand of massive closed networks, unless you count facebook as such. it is as diverse as ever since electronic distribution costs started to fall and actually scale smoothely from nothing to virtually limitless. this publishings do fill a more important function of media which is commenting on "the world".

it is just so that these millions of overlapping micro publishing fields have a heard time to constitute a recognizable and navigable public space. our recognition would leave all but our own micro bubbles invisible and part of the ground instead of "seeing" the figure of a unified public space in the way of the forum romanum. that figure is something that mass media created and that always seemed to be more than it really was. that is, what we think.