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Die? Thrive? Are You Conflicted On What You Want from Old Media? If you're one of the millions who saw the Daily Show last week, you probably saw a clip where Jason Jones took apart the New York Times, asking a staffer to find any news that happened "today". The paper, exemplifying the "yesterday's news" mentality that has a rapidly-increasing chasm between it and today's real-time world, is bleeding red ink as news consumers turn elsewhere for their updates - including many of us to the Web and to blogs. But over the weekend, as the situation in Iran unfolded, and old media, including CNN, was famously slow to respond, there were practically digital pitchforks out - highlighting what was characterized as a massive failure, compared to the personal 1-1 immediate reports we got from Twitter and elsewhere.