Old Media and New Media.

Members of the Old Media hate the New Media, and members of the New Media hate the Old Media, but both need one another to survive. That's not an opinion, that's the cold hard truth.

Think about it from this perspective: If the New Media didn't have the Old Media, which is the lone source of news, the New Media would have no news to dissect and no bias to lambast. If the Old Media didn't have the New Media, which is the largest aggregator of news, their articles and information would be under read and unappreciated.

As long as the New Media is based on Internet communication, without substantial funding, and without a growing outreach to more sectors (such as what an published newspaper or magazine can do), there will always be a need for the Old Media, whether we like it or not. Face it; if every Conservative blogger boycotted the Old Media, the New Media would be a opinion chamber, not a news chamber.

So what's the point?

Some members of the New Media are so opposed to the Old Media, that sometimes I think a full blown powderkeg is going to ignite, or in other words, some might actually do something about it, and establish a realistic venture into print media.

Why print media? Well, the current format of Internet news will only reach so many people and it lacks a certain amount of professionalism, but print media corrects both of the above mentioned problems, and it would allow for "New Media" wizkids who have limited resources, to expand a well meaning blog, into a investigative reporting machine with a complete staff.

Until we stop complaining about the Old Media, while using the Old Media for our articles and stories, and we start doing something constructive, such as launching a new bureau of our own focused on what the other media misses, than nothing will ever change. We'll keep linking and they will continue to lie.

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What has the news come to?

I log on to the internet, brings me to my startup page - http://www.localnet.com/ , and one of the top stories of world news is :

Mosquitoes match wing beats before mating; Scientists hope discovery can limit reproduction

By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
AP Science Writer

(AP) 03:27:14 PM (ET), Thursday, January 8, 2009 (WASHINGTON)

Researchers at Cornell University have discovered that Aedes aegypti mosquitoes _ the ones that spread diseases like yellow and dengue fever _ alter their wing vibrations in a mating signal.

The good news is that the finding could lead to better ways to control mosquitoes, according to Ronald R. Hoy, an author of the report published Thursday in the online edition of the journal Science.

Releasing sterile male mosquitoes is one way to control reproduction of the insects. Observing their mating signals could provide a way to determine if the sterile males can carry out courtship with females, he explained in a telephone interview.

"We don't want to be releasing duds out there, we want to release sterile studs," Hoy said.

That is because the female mosquitoes, once mated, are less responsive to other males and unlikely to mate again. So, if the initial mating is with a sterile male, there are no offspring.

"By studying these flight tone signals, we may be able to determine what kind of information males and females consider important when choosing a mate," added co-author Lauren Cator, a Cornell graduate student.

Hoy, who studies hearing in insects, said scientists knew the buzzing helped males home in on female mosquitoes, but he and his colleagues wondered just what they could hear.

Some mosquitoes match their wing beats when courting, he said, so the researchers decided to see if that was also the case with Aedes aegypti by exposing tethered males and females to one another.

It turned out that the insects did alter their wing beats, but not to match each other.

The females typically have a frequency of about 400 beats per second and the males approximately 600, he explained.

When they encountered one another they adjusted the beats until there was a harmonic of about 1200 vibrations per second _ or hertz _ an overtone of both the 400 and 600 beats.

The researchers were surprised that the insects could even sense that overtone.

"Who knew they could sense 1200 hertz," said Hoy. They can interact at frequencies they were not supposed to hear. Indeed, it had been widely thought that female mosquitoes were deaf.

To be certain, the researchers implanted electrodes in mosquitoes' Johnston organ, which the insects use for hearing. The insects could sense frequencies up to 2000 hertz.

So, can people hear the mosquito's love song?

Yes, says Hoy, it sounds like the worst ever case of ringing in the ears.

The study was funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a grant from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

http://start.localnet.com/article.php?article=D95J65A01.html

Is this where we have come to? A big news story about the mating habits of Mosquitoes?

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