Wired Cola

2009: Auto-Tune the News #1
2010: Brothers Gregory get a regular segment on TV
2011: MSNBC is the first channel to go to an all-autotune format.
2014: A web-only news broadcaster starts up. Key gimmick: the newsreaders sing in their natural voices.
A few weeks back I had a slight discussion on the fb with keith about the Guardian's experiment with crowdsourcing analysis of a data dump. I made the hubris-plagued claim that in the future, more news would be made that way than by traditional reportage.