Saturday, January 31, 2009

renaissance journalism

What has changed? In the 1600s England had the Moderate Intelligencer. Lancaster has the Intelligencer Journal. News went from personal letters to booklets like this one.

I'm seeing journalism change again. The inauguration came to me more as online data than as print. Television brought the event itself but little else. I wanted to check the Lowery benediction for hymn references. Think I bought the big city newspaper of record? No. Two clicks online and I had it as well as a lot of reactions to it.

Then it was back out on the street to head home and admire the Obama vendors left over from the swearing in day. That's Milton outside the burrito shop where we had lunch.


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