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The Credibility Of A Newspaper Or News Magazine Is Essential So You Can Check It For Accuracy. I'm Not Saying It's Not Valuable. One Can Make A Case For Just Running Everything. Just Run It! That's One Of The Advantages Of The Web, You Can Run Everything - But You Don't Help The Reader Find Out What's Important.

Internet News Cycles Are By The Minute, And Any Fool Can Take A Headline From The Associated Press And Send It Out As News.

Television And Radio Are What I Call Sequential Media; They're Not Simultaneous Media. With Simultaneous Media, You Can Scan Your Eye Down An Electronic Or Print Page And Pick Among Six Or Seven Stories You Might Like And Want To Read. With Television And Radio, You Have To Wait Until The Guy's Finished Talking About The Balloon Boy, Which I Don't Have The Slightest Interest In, To Find Out That All Hell's Broken Loose In Baghdad. Because They've Chosen That Day To Start With The Balloon Boy.

We Always Talk About How Everyone Is Unifocal. You Can't Possibly Be Interested In Jazz And Beethoven. Of Course You Can. You Can't Both Be Reading A Newspaper And Be Online. Of Course You Can. We Shouldn't Be Obsessed With A Gun To Your Head, 'you Either Read A Newspaper Or Die!'

Transmitting Information Is Easier Than Creating Understanding.