[krapp]

>This perfectly summarizes a frail old media trying to survive against a vibrant uncontrolled new media.

You seem to have this idea of "old" media being a bunch of out of touch old people typing on typewriters and using rotary phones, and "new" media being hip punk kids sticking it to the man with their dank memes and irony, but this is a myth. They're the same thing now. Old media transitioned into the new media landscape years ago, the web and sites like 4chan haven't been something only young people understand for a long time (if that was ever the case) and new media is controlled by many of the same old media interests.

[Clubber]

The distinction is about business models and cost of doing business. When your costs are high and you are owned by a mega corp, there is a high probability that some of your stories are compromised. This is pretty obvious to anyone who is paying attention and has been since at least Bush 2 and probably earlier.

[krapp]

That's a distinction between corporate new media and independent new media, not new and old.

And plenty of independent new media has been compromised by political and ideological interests.

[Clubber]

Plenty of old media too.

[krapp]

Yeah, they're all the same thing in many ways now. The internet is as mainstream as any other communications platform, decades old, but people still pretend like no one older than 20 gets it.