[E]mergencies such as wars and earthquakes...

[E]mergencies such as wars and earthquakes demonstrate a simple and permanent fact of media life: that the Net is the new TV and the new radio, because it has subsumed both. It would be best for both TV and radio to normalize to the Net and quit protecting their old distribution systems.

Doc Searls, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Earthquake Turns TV Networks into Print.