The Huffington Post talks about the triumph of New media in 2007. And while this article is very US Centric. I’d like to see more New media movements in places that really matter like Africa, and the Middle East. Once we see this then we can have hope for a better world. What does New media really matter if its still the top 10% of the richest people in the world controlling media? Yes, that’s you and me. And probably all of the readers here.
2007 will be the year that brings a new wave of influence, power, money and idealism to the new world that will define the media and politics of the post-Bush area.
George Clooney will be a model of activism and engagement for the entertainment world.
Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth will be a model for using the medium of entertainment to bring
great issues of the world to larger audiences, which mobilize great constituencies.Arianna Huffington will be a model of bringing ideas and opinions to a larger audience on the internet that will synthesize with talk radio and cable television and transform infotainment.
Nancy Pelosi will be a model for empowerment and engagement not only for women for the next generation of change waves in the rising tide that will lift many boats across America.
Keith Olbermann will be a model for cable television that in 2007 will cease being a megaphone for reactionary politics and the culture of insiderism, but will reach upward and outward to the larger audience of the real America.
Source: The Huffington Post
Originally posted on January 1, 2007 @ 4:57 am
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