Partnering for the greater good?
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds has
a new book out called, “An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology
Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government and Other
Goliaths.”
Here’s an excerpt from a review in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
If
Big Media could figure out how to partner with alternative media -
putting together, as Reynolds suggests, "a network of freelance
journalists" or "knit[ting] together a network of bloggers" - the
outcome would be good for all concerned.
But that's not going to
happen as long as corporate journalism continues to insist on ever more
bureaucratic protocols, on making articles conform to some goofy
packaging concept, and on a top-to-bottom command structure. It's as
though a World War II army were marching through a jungle infested by
guerrillas. Just like in Vietnam.