<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/89cf104f-f6a1-4070-a7e6-7f85e9dac085/1BC86666-B7EB-47D0-894C-CD8F73ACBA81/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/03/26/what-will-happen-when-your-local-tv-station-newspaper-are-gone/" href="http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/03/26/what-will-happen-when-your-local-tv-station-newspaper-are-gone/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.fastforwardblog.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/03/26/what-will-happen-when-your-local-tv-station-newspaper-are-gone/">What will happen when your local TV Station & Newspaper are Gone?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/03/26/what-will-happen-when-your-local-tv-station-newspaper-are-gone/">the “Deathwalk” of papers and TV Stations</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/03/26/what-will-happen-when-your-local-tv-station-newspaper-are-gone/">Nature has a iron-clad set of rules for the death of an over mature system.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/03/26/what-will-happen-when-your-local-tv-station-newspaper-are-gone/">So if this pattern is reliable then this is what will happen when your community loses its Big News.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/03/26/what-will-happen-when-your-local-tv-station-newspaper-are-gone/">The Fast Growing New Growth  the “Poplars” - The best of the local bloggers will rise in prominence.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/03/26/what-will-happen-when-your-local-tv-station-newspaper-are-gone/">Aggregation - Very quickly some of these will form an affiliation. We have seen an early variant of this in St Louis with the establishment of the Beacon.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/03/26/what-will-happen-when-your-local-tv-station-newspaper-are-gone/">Climax - I think that the climax or mature and stable phase will emerge from the Aggregation process</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/03/26/what-will-happen-when-your-local-tv-station-newspaper-are-gone/">In the US I think that St Louis offers us a strong hint. Journalists, Public TV and Radio can get together to offer a home for the rest of the local blogging ecosystem. They can also pull in national and global content and offer up stories from their own place.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1BC86666-B7EB-47D0-894C-CD8F73ACBA81/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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