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
Living in Wyoming in the early 1970s, I truly enjoyed Sunday's edition of the Rocky Mtn. News. Much has changed and my office is now paperless. Today's newspapers report yesterday's news. Televised news was the first torpedo but I gave up both as they became more political and polarized or sanitized.