Ben Brooks, back over the summer:
At the D8 conference Steve Jobs remarked that perhaps the news industry needs an iTunes type model for news. He went on to say that we need news outlets so that we don’t become a “nation of bloggers”. Agreed.
The question then is does Jobs mean that we really need an iNews, or was he simply using that to illustrate the point that news is lost and needs a common strategy that they can band around? I of course think that Jobs meant the latter: news outlets need to band together to create a common and standardized system by which they will make money off of their content.
For years, there have been rumors and speculation from the “nation of bloggers” about this very thing. Sadly, print journalism still doesn’t know what to do with this new-fangled technology named “the Internet.”