Study suggests that most "real" news stories still originate at traditional news outlets
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This is pretty much what I’ve always thought. People say that traditional journalism and “old media” are dying. Maybe, sure, for economic reasons. People also say “you can get all your news online now.” But what does that mean? You can get your news from blogs. Okay, but where are bloggers getting their news? Mostly from other bloggers.
Well, if you trace all those links all the way back to the source, you usually wind up at the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, a major TV network, or some other “old media” source. Someone still has to pay reporters to actually go out there and collect the news. It doesn’t just materialize out of thin air. Once the newspapers and beat reporters are gone, do you think Matt Drudge is going to start going to press conferences?
