Epic 2014 is coming true.

It is a video that I saw several months ago, but the YouTube/Google deal seems to be a lot like “Googlezon”

Michael Hirschorn in The Atlantic Online analyzed this video and the updated Epic 2015. He urges some kind of evolution in print journalism–creating portals around the individual columnists and critics that make a paper what it is. This proposition is interesting because it makes me wonder if each community could be created around just one person, one voice. As Hirschorn says, journalists could become the “hub of their own social networks.” I wonder if this would segment the media more or if the charisma of one person, one journalist, could bring a community together and grow it into something much better than any news or social organization that we have today. Could there be something better? I can’t wait to find out.

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Nancy Grace from CNN Headline News is being sued for causing the suicide of Melinda Duckett after interviewing her.

What responsibility does a journalist have for the impact of their interview?

When we interview, especially in investigative journalism, journalists try to really attack a subject…some journalists at least. The point of all this is to get to some definitive answer, the truth, but what effect does it have on our subjects?

In Grace’s case, I haven’t seen the interview myself, but I have seen several of her appearances on television. Here she is defending herself on Good Morning America.

Grace seems a little upset about it, but she doesn’t really seem apologetic–more defensive. I don’t know if it is simply a sign of the judging mentality in some of the media today, or if she did just happen to interview someone who was already a little mentally unstable. I personally don’t think it was Grace’s responsibility that Duckett committed suicide. I would say that she probably did have something to do with the disappearance of her son if she can’t answer questions about it and then went off to commit suicide.

But it is still sad and raises the question.

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So who is going to win the next-gen war?

Personally, I think Sony has really done a horrible job this time around. The bad press is not being balanced by a dominant system or equally matched titles going into the holiday season. Xbox 360 has a pretty nice library established and all the Xbox zombies waiting for Halo 3 to drop. On the other side of things, PS3 has a meager little collection of titles with Resistance heading that up. Most say Gears of War matches if not topples that title anyway.

And what about the Wii? Nintendo was a pretty quiet player this last gen war–which was nice for me since I could pick up popular multi-platform titles for my Gamecube at half the price of my Xbox and PS2 buds after price drops. The Wii kind of brings Nintendo in to a unique market. Even though PS3 tries to copy them with the motion-sensing remote, I think I will like the Wii better for some types of gaming than even a system with superior graphics.

Just checking out the Madden controls gets me pretty pumped about the possibilities. I know I can never remember the button for spin or juke when I am running, but if all I have to do is stick out my arm…now we are talking.

I think the Wii and the 360 are going to win big, and I can’t really feel sorry for Sony. You did it to yourself, Stringer.

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