Trevor Cook: Comeback Kings - How old media is adapting

16 April 2007

Comeback Kings - How old media is adapting

Here's my latest effort for The Walkley Magazine: "Big media is remaking itself into new-media kings,and the ABC is leading the charge Downunder, writes Trevor Cook. Cartoon by Andrew Weldon (opposite).

In January this year, Bill Gates said that people will laugh at television in five years’ time. It’s a view popular with people who believe that old media will die before it can change. While there’s no doubt that the advent of broadband means that tomorrow’s internet will be as much about audio and video as it is about text, it’s not clear that today’s media players will be the big losers."

16 Apr 2007 12:04:53 | Media

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