Larry O’Connor on Fox & Friends

Larry O’Connor captures the perception of elitism of Gawker, DIGG and Salon.com as a factor in their dramatic slide from being the popular sites for news to being the has-beens of the digital world. You could also fault the decline to the credibility of the content produced at these sites.

Take Twitter, Facebook,  Google+ and combine it with awesomely good regional blogs and the need for ginormous news sites to provide breaking news and commentary is pretty much minimized, if not eliminated.  The Bigs (Big Journalism, Government, Peace and Hollywood) on the other hand have adopted a model that uncovers news stories; recent examples include; Weiner-gate, Pigford, ACORN, NPR and just about every time James O’Keefe goes undercover. This is what journalism used to do, a practice the other large news websites have abandoned and the traffic numbers reflect this.

Posted on August 29, 2011  ::  Categories: Bloggers
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