Web and the Conventional (print) Media : Unfortunate Gap
I was overwhelmed when The New Indian Express (an Indian Daily), introduced excerpts from blogs in their print edition, daily. They grab excerpts usually from blogs hosted at free services, which posts about current events and world events.
But, nothing proves to be filling the need for insightful content in newspapers or print media, in general. It still shouts about what happened yesterday, rather than help you live today and prepare for tomorrow. The web is always buzzing with startups for today and ideas for tomorrow.
The print media influences the way people think of what have already happened, but, web influences how things will be like tomorrow, even the very next minute. So, if said as a verdict, web is extremely constructive, while the conventional media, though not destructive, isn’t constructive.
Aravind Jose T.
now thats a terribly true insight! apart from new indian exp, i guess matrubhumi weekly has also started devoting a page for the same in malayalam..but then,lets hope this ‘borrowing excerpts’ mission will give way to restructuring their own vision!
For them, blogs are a way to get new content for their commercial interests. Nothing more…