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I don't think that citizens media (by which I gather you mean weblogging) will kill the media dinosaurs.

The easy portal to enormous information provided by the dinosaurs (as opposed to reading up on 50 weblogs, that one must first locate and vet), and ease of use (TV, newspaper, internet medium - wide distribution and access), and the dinosaurs' role as traditional sources of info lead me to think that they'll be around, and dominant, for the foreseeable future ...

The "easy" portals you mention are just that — easy. You'll start seeing more & more portals coming up that collect blog posts into a condensed, easy to read format. Google's already doing that, and there are smaller ones out there. Plus blogzines (like Command Post) are just smashing the ability of organizations like CNN to compete. After all, when you get the same coverage for $100 a year (or less) or $100 million a year (or more), your business model's set to fail.

If not all dinosaur media is bound to dissappear, at least newspaper will strive to live. Young generations don't read newspapers and, aware of that trends covers of newspapers are starting to look like webpages. I think only theme focused newspapers (Journals?) will have a chance, why pay for a chunk of paper when you can get the same pop information for free??. When it comes to in depth news or information coverage though, you are compelled to look beyond nwspapers and the internet (unless you pay $$).

I'm not so sure, Daniel. While I think that print, TV, and radio will survive (after all, TV didn't kill radio andy more than radio killed newspapers). But they will be part of a larger communications package focused on the internet. Essentially, the print version (for those who want it) of the internet product.

And much in-depth coverage is going online now, too. Even academic journals how have on-line editions (and you usually can't get more in-depth than that). It's simple capitalism: if your competitor offers a product at a lower price (the interent tends towards "free"), they will beat you in your market share.

We're seeing more & more "traditional" news magazines (the kind that offer more in-depth coverage than daily newspapers) going online: The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, Time, The New Yorker, The Utne Reader, Mother Jones, The Nation, Reason, etc.

I think radio has seriously hurt newspapers and TV did the same thing to radio. Probably their role was changed by force and all of them will be changed once again because of the internet. What is the main use of radio, newspapers, and TV?, all of them are more a means of information there is no 2 way channel between the sender and receiver. On the other hand the internet does inform, but it is more a means of communication, there is a 2 way channel, you can easily respond, dialogue and discuss.

There is in depth information in the internet, but you have to pay for it (which it's ok). Radio won't be extinct for a while because it is the only means of distraction and information when you have your hands occupied (Ex. driving, working), TV is the main means of visual distraction and information (only until culturally you can accept watching TV over your computer monitor or screen. The internet has the ability to embrace all, you can even print your newspapers.