Andrew Keen: ‘The internet will devour newspapers’
October 8th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Newspapers, Online Journalism
Andrew Keen, writing on Telegraph.co.uk, reminds newspapers that they could be made redundant by the internet. Picking up a recent argument made by the author and academic Clay Shirky, Keen writes:
“The core reality of the internet is its absence of a centre. The distributed internet, all edge and no heart, has done away with the centralised structures of power of the old industrial world. And without a core, the news can’t be controlled by a central power. It can no longer be owned.
“The internet is like a blob, a centreless yet all powerful monster, impossible to destroy and yet able to devour everything in its path.”
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