Mass Communication Law

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For years, big-city newspapers were the anchors of the mass media world. Today, they're on the verge of collapse.  The Rocky Mountain News is gone; the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is almost surely gone (or switching to online-only publication) as well; the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Daily News, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Detroit News, the Boston Globe may be next.  The old broadcast TV powerhouses have lost their dominant position as the video marketplace continues to fragment. What are the costs of losing the old media dinosaurs?  Is this a permanent shift, reflecting new economic realities in the age of the Internet? How will journalism be different if Internet-based actors -- folks outside what they derisively refer to as the "mainstream media" -- come to play a dominant role in generating the news?  What do we want as our future, and how do we get there?

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