Sull’inserto MediaGuardian di ieri, Christiane Amanpour della Cnn ben esemplifica lo smottamento e il contrasto che stiamo vivendo, tra main-stream televisivo e vita quotidiana raccontata in rete:

For Amanpour, those days are gone. “I think the type of storytelling doesn’t exist any more. It just doesn’t.” The unrolling of the economic crisis on our television screens is arid and flat, told by experts in suits, not ordinary working people, she says. “There is a lot of jargon, there is no storytelling. I want to see the pictures of what is going on. I want to see the people. Storytelling is as simple as that.”

E ancora:

All of that has affected storytelling, as has the rise of the internet, which Amanpour sees as a leading culprit in the dying practice of serious journalism. She argues the growth of the web has shortened attention-spans, and replaced the communal experience of sitting around a television set in the living room with the isolation of squinting at one’s individual screen to watch video or surf the web.

Ma del resto ieri, sullo stesso inserto del Guardian, Jeff Jarvis scriveva commentando i flussi di notizie generati dai cittadini a Mumbai:

Such will be our new view of news: urgent, live, direct, emotional, personal.