Josh Marshall and the future of media

Reading parts of Josh Marshall's speech when he came to visit Ithaca, he made a lot of good points about the media and its future. Independent media is necessary, accuracy can get lost when trying to be balanced, and opportunities are endless on the web were just a few. One of the last questions he promoted and answered that we even discussed in class made me think.

He said in "Keynote Lecture: Josh Marshall: The Growth of Talking Points Memo and the Importance of Independent Media,"

"The question in my mind: Are we just in a period of tumult and we’ll settle down and have the same kind of dominant entities – or is there something about the technology that has created a permanent ingrained ease of entry into the space? I think the latter is the case."

I do not know if he is right. After reading, Rodger Streitmatter's "Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America,” it seems there is always a dominant media or even a basic ideal of the time. When lynching was accepted, there were still people like Ida B. Wells who wrote against it. When black suppression was still occurring in the 60s, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out. Whether it is media or political issues, there is always someone speaking out because the majority or what used be to the majority has more power. It is possible that when I am older, independent media will be mainstream. Although it seems now that new technology has allowed for wide views, it is unsure how this will affect the media in time to come. So although Josh Marshall makes a good point and he could be right, it is still difficult to tell if this new media has wiped out the old way of doing things.