As I read various news articles online, I find myself turning further away from old media sources. I’m not talking about turning away from print, I did that a long time ago. I am talking about the old print and television media companies web sites.
There are two primary reasons for this. First, they don’t post easily available images from third parties. This probably has to do with copyright and I find it sad that traditional media would jealously guard their own copyright when it directly works against them. The second and biggest reason is that they never link to outside sources. I read an article on a Canadian newspapers website (I can’t remember which one) that talked about a video that is on YouTube and yet they neither imbedded the video or linked to it. In the past, a reporter never talked about the competition unless it was the news story. This antiquated approach must be driving more people than myself away. I actually heard this reference on the CBC show Search Engine. It didn’t really click when I heard the host, Jesse Brown, talk about this in comparison to blogging but now I suddenly get it. I wonder how long it will talk old media to?