The internet has changed the media for sure.
One of the things that it completely new is news aggregator sites. These sites scour the internet for news and then link to the most popular or relevant news story´s. But is this a good thing? The consumer seems to think so as consumers flock to these sites in ever bigger droves. However the media companies that produce the news don´t seem to be to ecstatic about this. They point out that it costs money to make media (news) and the search engines are simply abusing their work. The search engines that run the news aggregators do like to point out that they drive a lot of traffic towards the news sites and they should be able to monetize on that.
It seems to me that both sides have good points. I think I would have to take sides with the search engines though as producers of content should just be able to close of their sites with passwords if they do not want external traffic driven towards their sites.
This brings up the big question again of money and journalism. (really the big question for almost any old-fashioned content providing business sector which product can be better distributed via the internet)
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