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In Wake Of Quake, Net Is The 'New TV'

On the other hand, blogger Doc Searls castigates TV network Web sites for offering no live coverage of the disaster.

"Earthquake turns TV networks into print" is the headline for this post, which sums up its main point -- that "emergencies such as wars and earthquakes demonstrate a simple and permanent fact of media life: that the Net is the new TV and the new radio, because it has subsumed both. It would be best for both TV and radio to normalize to the Net and quit protecting their old distribution systems."

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