Wired‘s Chris Anderson Doesn’t Use the Word “Journalism”

Wired EIC and dubious Free author Chris Anderson gave an interview to Der Spiegel in which he talked about the future of journalism. Or maybe not:

SPIEGEL: Mr. Anderson, let’s talk about the future of journalism.

Anderson: This is going to be a very annoying interview. I don’t use the word journalism.

After gallantly undefining “news,” “media,” and all of “the words of the last century,” Anderson goes on to describe how he gets his news crystallized brain-energy:

SPIEGEL: The New York Times, CNN, Reuters and others can publish their best reporting on the Web and you’d never read it?

Anderson: I read lots of articles from mainstream media but I don’t go to mainstream media directly to read it. It comes to me, which is really quite common these days. More and more people are choosing social filters for their news rather than professional filters. We’re tuning out television news, we’re tuning out newspapers. And we still hear about the important stuff, it’s just that it’s not like this drumbeat of bad news. It’s news that matters. I figure by the time something gets to me it’s been vetted by those I trust. So the stupid stuff that doesn’t matter is not going to get to me.

So: Twitter. Read the full interview here.

(via Bookslut)

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