Andrew Keen: Is the internet killing journalism?

Yo fuck this guy. Srsly.

No, Web 2.0 affords us an opportunity to express themselves instead of listening to snobs like yourself laying down the law on what we should listen to and when. You are scared because you believe that only 10% of the world should control the other 90%. You are nuts! Debate me in New York and I will show you how it's done. Don't be a douche bag.

You are so way off with your theory. What's sad is that your self importance is overshadowing reality. Mainstream media declined because of competition. There are many events that the mainstream media will never broadcast, such as the brutalization of Rodney King.

I read the book. He has many good points and many I agree with AND many I disagree with. If you have not read the book you do not know what he is really talking about.

Now remember boys and girls... unless you're spoon fed reality from cnn/foxnews you're not doing it right, the internet is an evil evil place and anything you hear from the internet that contradicts what the TV gods are telling you is concentrated SATAN

The funny thing is, Keen is just an amateur himself, and his book is nothing but an extended blog on paper.

He has been in the buisness for several years.

I think a lot of bloggers have too...

And what is this bullshit about the Internet lowering the quality of information? There will always exist good and bad sources. Only morons won't be able to differentiate between the two. Reduced to its simplest form Internet is merely communication between a network of computers. Take it away and what do we resort to? Lots of phone calls, letters, etc. The same stuff gets done but at a snail's pace.

If you're going to concoct some sort of crack conspiracy theory you should first of all learn how your damn computer works. Cookies are text files that are generated on (and only on) your computer as a check to see if you have prepopulated a form or visited a web page already (e.g., logged into a web account).