Re: [Marxism] Newspapers and the Internet

["Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jonas says <<But giving up "dead tree publications" isn't exclusively a
great thing, because I think a dead tree paper could have a dynamic the
internet can't, or at least doesn't at present (and I'm not sure how it
can). I'm not talking about selling your group's paper in the street, hand
to hand. What you can do is take a  dead tree paper to your workplace and
throw it on the lunch room table, where at least some people will read it
when they've finished with the evening tabloids someone else has brought
in.>>

The real challenge, in terms of reaching people, aren't articles but
video/visual presentations (and I don't mean PowerPoint). Online communities
are two decades old, a "deep" website (with lots of hyperlinked content) is
what was needed 15 years ago, a GREAT website is like, so 1999....

The one thing that is even truer today than last year or the one before is
that if you create the right EVENT for video capture, it will be seen/your
message heard around the world. I mean look at Muntader al-Zaidi. If a true
journalist's calling is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the
comfortable, then al-Zaidi gave a whole new dimension to term "old-fashioned
shoe-leather journalism."

Joaquin


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