Last month saw many a retrospective on how the noughties had changed the media, entertainment and news. Some of it quite unexpected – who would have predicted social networking and twitter as media tools; then there were the more predictable parts such as decline of journalistic standards and the onward march of multinational control.

There was also the seasonal crystal ball gazing which included:

twitter predictions from industry types at Journalism.co.uk

115 predictions for the media and magazines in 2010

what 2010 has in store for social media and so more on social media and business to business publishing

The Los Angeles Times on what might happen to the media in the US

that’s just a taste but there are plenty more predictions, mainly focusing on social media.

Meanwhile, the NUJ Left’s five predictions for 2010 and beyond are:

1) The Tories (if they get in) will outlaw raising your eyebrows ironically at a bosses’s unfair request

2) The Large Hadron Collider will reveal the Murdoch clan to be physical manifestations of the Higgs Bosun particle

3) Any photographer within 10 miles of the police will be slammed in jail and made to wear a heavy iron mask just like in the Alexander Dumas novel

4) Boshtosh Five, the new social media networking tool which facilitates handshaking, plutocracy, the novels of HP Lovecraft, online scrabble playing and world domination will conquer the globe unknowingly. It will replace everything, everywhere and at the same time but differently. Social media commentators will develop buboes with the excitement of it all

5)  Media workers will suffer even more job losses, pay freezes, erosion of job satisfaction and some will fightback and win

I am banking on one of them

Happy holidays and a good new year and in if your in the NUJ then please join the NUJ left

Posted by Keith Sellick