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Two different stories on the MediaGuardian website; two very different takes on this new media world of ours...
One is Alan Rusbridger's thoughts ahead of the Society Of Editors gathering in Bristol today - an event that could have all the joyous trappings of a particularly miserable wake...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/10/newspapers-the-future-alan-rusbridger
The other is Jemima Kiss' report on how one of the biggest winners of the US election was new media - in all her many-headed forms... It was the web wot won it...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/10/obama-online-strategy
Put together and they make for an interesting read.
Rusbridger's call for a spot of top-slicing-cum-state-subsidy to head the way of the provincial ...