{"id":13212,"date":"2024-03-18T02:52:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T02:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13212"},"modified":"2024-04-21T02:54:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T02:54:53","slug":"the-fall-of-the-fourth-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/18\/the-fall-of-the-fourth-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall Of The Fourth Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Intelligencer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

My front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Kara Swisher<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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n the early 1990s, I was a reporter at the Washington Post. <\/em>Having just turned 30, I was the \u201cyoung\u201d person in the newsroom, so when the digital-media start-ups appeared, I got what many reporters looked at as the short end of the beat. They had no interest in understanding the massive changes that were happening. As I learned more, it often fell to me to explain what this newfangled internet was as if I were trying to explain a tree to a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Post<\/em> did give me the space to report on a broad range of digital topics, largely because no one else would \u2014 including the many come-and-gone technologies, like CD-ROMs, that were heralded as \u201cmultimedia killers\u201d but would soon be killed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During that period, I made one prediction that started coming true much more quickly than even I expected. This was about the end of old media, starting with the destruction of one of its most important economic pillars: the classified ads in newspapers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Intelligencer Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media My front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe. By\u00a0Kara Swisher n the early 1990s, I was a reporter at the Washington Post. Having just turned 30, I was the \u201cyoung\u201d person in the newsroom, so when the digital-media start-ups appeared, I got what many reporters looked at as the short […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}