Traditional media on the ropes?

Since refusing to pay the ridiculous prices for PayTV services, I have been reduced to watching free-to-air television. Watching 'Today' this morning, I notice that the traditional media is increasingly turning to youtube, Facebook and twitter for content.

The content on 'Today' consists of a significant portion of New Media snippets. Even the Hollywood session was dominated by twitter and youtube.

'Today' has become 'The Footy Show' of New Media. Commentary on youtube videos and so forth is a bit like watching former footy players talk about what is happening on the field. It seems the traditional journalists are increasingly taking on this role as 'former' and commenting on the breaking stories emerging from New Media.

Does this mean the traditional media is on the ropes?

UniTwitter Update 3

I was asked to add the full matrix of following/followers/updates, so here it is as at about 8:30pm this evening:

1. RMIT - 307/934/240
2. UNSW - 466/475/237
3. Uni of Melbourne - 290/469/416
4. La Trobe - 93/398/171
5. Monash Uni - 165/377/48
6. Flinders Uni - 34/252/47
7. Uni of Wollongong - 188/176/65
8. Uni of Adelaide - 99/97/52
9. Charles Sturt Uni - 89/94/56
10. Uni of Sydney - 0/74/0
11. UniSA - 75/74/23
12. Uni of Canberra - 51/56/15
13. ANU - 18/37/0
14. Aust Catholic Uni - 0/22/8
15. James Cook Uni - 3/19/1
16. USQ - 20/16/17
17. Central Qld Uni - 23/12/10
18. Swinburne Uni - 0/6/0
19. Charles Darwin Uni - 20/4/1
20. Deakin Uni - 0/2/0 (but status updates by request only)

Happy to receive any additions/corrections (corporate sites only please!).

UniTwitter: Update on Australian Unis on Twitter Poll

This is the best I can do for now (I cannot guarantee all are correct corporate sites - I did this for fun!). Unis ranked by number of followers as at about 1:30pm today:

1. RMIT - 934
2. UNSW - 472
3. Uni of Melbourne - 470
4. La Trobe - 396
5. Monash Uni - 376
6. Flinders Uni - 251
7. Uni of Wollongong - 176
8. Uni of Adelaide - 95
9. Charles Sturt Uni - 91
10. Uni of Sydney - 73
11. UniSA - 71
12. Uni of Canberra - 53
13. ANU - 37
14. Aust Catholic Uni - 22
15. James Cook Uni - 18
16. USQ - 16
17. Central Qld Uni - 12
18. Swinburne Uni - 5
19. Charles Darwin Uni - 3
20. Deakin Uni - 2 (but status updates by request only)

Happy to receive any additions/corrections (corporate sites only please!).