I have added a link to Pauline Kael the greatest film critic of her age.  Suggest a read of her article Art Trash and the movies.  

I also read interview with Christiane Annapour the emminent CNN reporter of the gulf and Iraq wars

" I think the type of storytelling doesn't exist anymore.  It just doesn't.  The unrolling of the economic crisis on our television screens is arid and flat told by experts in suits, not ordinary working people.  There is a lot of jargon, there is no storytelling.  I want to see pictures of what is going on.  I want to see the people. Storytelling is as simple as that"

Contrast this with Jeff Jarvis at his blog buzzmachine.com talking about the power of Twitter at the Mumbai attacks.

"Ever since I survived the 9/11 attacks, and later saw the coverage the world saw - smoke spied from rooftops miles away- I have made sure to always have a camera with me.  If I had had that then, the image I would have shared would not have been of smoke and helicopters, but instead of the black tear-tracks on the face of an African- American woman covered in the grey dust of destruction.  Such will be our new view of news: urgent, live, direct, emotional, personal.

The media is available to all to run and populate with programmes and bulletins