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Journalists Robin Sloan (Current, a San Francisco cable news channel) and Matt Thompson (Fresno Bee) have come up with a novel way of sharing their views on the future of the news media. EPIC 2014 is a “mockumentary”, a mock documentary that takes place in the year 2014 where “20th century news organizations are an afterthought” and the venerable New York Times is read only by the “elite and the elderly”. The eight-minute piece, produced by the fictional Museum of Media, is aimed at people who want their news bites in headline format, and at those who find the current “string of scandals and credibility problems” a turn-off. Have a look at EPIC 2014 and at a new short section that takes this history up to 2015.