From Poynter.org: by Clay Shirky: The Shock of Inclusion and New Roles for News in the Fabric of Society
If you were in the news business in the 20th century, you worked in a kind of pipeline, where reporters and editors would gather facts and observations and turn them into stories, which were then committed to ink on paper or waves in the air, and finally consumed, at the far end of those various modes of transport, by the audience. Read more.