Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
(Blog Post) When someone demands to be told how we can replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren’t in peril, that core institutions will be spared, that new methods of spreading information will improve previous practice rather than upending it. They ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Columbia Journalism Review
The era of the Big Time newspaper seems to be coming to and end. There will always be paper, but it appears that it will mostly deal with local issues.