that the media was broken, here's another example.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/technolo...gin&oref=slogin
Short version: Yahoo! and Reuters are going to be accepting submission from users for news. Cellphones, professional, it doesn't matter as people don't care.
People who submit the content won't be compensated, unless it goes wide in the Reuters network, for which there will be a minimal compensation.
I know reporters are vilified on here, but they serve some decent purposes. The quality of news will continue its sad slide, and this only helps it.
Reuters gets to receive lots of free content without having to pay a reporter, which seems like a win for them.
Yahoo! gets content that allows them to show more advertisements as well as compete with Google Video/Google's Youtube.
Even more pictures/video clips are going to start showing up which are way out of context and don't present a good picture of the situation at hand.
Its a win for both Yahoo! and Reuters, and it sucks for everyone else.
I'm not exactly sure how to fix it, but I do know one thing - a media which is funded by and slaves to its shareholders causes news quality to decline rapidly.