Prospero to Miranda

This is news, to the extent that news can be differentiated from understanding. The fact that traditional media are fading to black has been reported many times by traditional media. The insistence on the no-longer-new as news suggests a heuristic difference between the new and the "news." The latter exists to the extent the former has yet to be understood.

:: Jay Rosen looked at Merrill Brown's piece and much more related thinking recently.