Media May Have Changed Forever While You Were Asleep

On-line Zine Gawker is breaking two culturally significant bits of News this morning:

Still, Thomas never imagined that Heene would involve his six-year-old son in what he is certain was a "global media hoax" to further Richard Heene's own celebrity. Thomas' story of his time with Heene, based on an interview with Ryan Tate, follows below. It's a fascinating account and after he publicly offered to sell his story, we paid him for it.

Whatever does an old media that has already been trying to keep pace with the new Internet world do now? Which will see more network promotion? The Sunday morning news talk shows that might discuss the ethics behind Gawker's decision, its impact on News and open admission? Or the first network TV magazine show that secures the first interview with Ryan Tate?

More importantly, will they pay for it, too?

I'm not so sure. But the race for Ryan Tate could be interesting. Unless of course it simply falls to Breitbart TV to do as an Internet story, though I very much doubt that. I wonder how many young TV producers were paged by the talent this AM when the item broke to see if they were on it?

Comments

[John]

I don't think the media has changed at all, I think the people are beginning to see through the elitist scams. They do not control the news anymore, you can spend ten minutes on the internet and get better and more accurate information than watching MSNBC and CNN all day.