Along the same lines, Web 2.0 in general is increasingly perceived as a threat to society, instead of Jimbo's "bringing all of the world's information to all of the world's people."
From a
CNET story by Charles Cooper that ran a couple days ago:
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Investigative journalism: First casualty of the Net?
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The occasion: a series of panels co-sponsored by Microsoft, Google, the Computer History Museum, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, probing "the impact of information technology on society."
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The day started off with a rocking presentation by Joshua Cohen, a Stanford professor of political science. Alluding to the accelerating collapse of newspapers, he cautioned that the still-to-be-determined impact on the American polity will be anything but good.
"Here's where there is a big problem," he said, arguing that a "successful democratic sphere" is impossible without the information that newspapers supply. He added that "the damage is growing, and the consequences, potentially, are severe."
"Call me old-fashioned," Cohen continued, but blogging will not offer "a viable alternative" to investigative journalism. He faulted arguments that an increasingly decentralized blogosphere can fill that vacuum, a contention that he dismissed as "cyberutopianism."
"It is not only misplaced," Cohen said. "It's dangerous."
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