Disaggregated Media

Fred Wilson writes:

...Traditional media is about vertical integration, from the creation of the content, to the display of it, to the distribution of it.  ¶  There have been some important moves to disaggregate and organize around a horizontal model in recent years. Cable is a good example of that. The production of the content is divorced from the distribution of it in the cable model. CNN produces a 24 hour news channel but Comcast gets it to your home.  ¶  The Internet is forcing the entire media business into a disaggregated horizontal model where the creation of the content will happen in one place, the editorial function will happen in another, the production will happen somewhere else, and the distribution will happen in yet another manner. ...

Link:  A VC.  Which he follows with ...

Disaggregated Media (continued) - The Rise of the Ad Networks.  Link:  A VC.  --Dennis