Changes Today are Comparable in Impact to Birth of Mass Media

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by: Lynette Webb

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Image from www.milkeninstitute.org/newsroom/photos/gc04_rmurdoch.jpg
Quote from Wired www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/murdoch_pr.html
The quote says it all really. The Economist made a similar comparison a few months ago, talking about the two kinds of ‘Movable Type’ effectively being bookends to the mass media era. But this version is the better sound bite. 🙂 

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