Does he mean Eason Jordan?

In an article at New York magazine, Jonathan Klein, the head of CNN is quoted as saying:

“Within five years, people will be saying, ‘I want the news about Jordan,’ and they’ll type ‘Jordan’ into their handheld device and up will pop the news about Jordan that they want, nothing else,” says Klein as he sits opposite the panel of anchor-filled screens broadcasting the news in the format that has worked well for the past half-century. “There won’t be anchors. There won’t be people introducing the stories. Consumers won’t have the time or the need for that. They’ll just be getting the news they want, when they want it, in whatever form they want it.”

Read the whole thing here.

Look out for this:

"a scandal surrounding a Rather story on 60 Minutes that turned out to be based on possibly phony documents."

What he doesn't add is that consumers will want the news from sources they trust. So if I google Eason Jordan in five years, I won't click through the link to the UK Guardian, say, or the NYTimes.

If I'm interested in whether documents are "possibly" false though, I now trust Little Green Footballs completely.

Plus I believe there will be people presenting the news in all the media categories. They will be characters who are clear about their biasses. No pretending to be objective. I hope there's a spectrum of personality types from warm and motherly, to sharp tongued and professorish. Just as there is in the non-fiction book category.

One of the first English put downs I ever learned when I moved here was "ah, but consider the source".