ABSTRACT
Digitalization not only diffuses media audiences at unprecedented rates, it fundamentally changes news media businesses and, in the process, the nature of news itself. The “trusted” news anchor is being replaced by an army of bipolar bloggers masquerading as experts; the New York Times’s agenda-setting function in society is being eroded by so-called consensus journalists pointing, clicking, and capturing stories with their cell phones. The result is a new media mess of half-truths and lowest common denominator story selection.
