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 »

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James Jackson
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by James Jackson - Mar. 16, 2009

Clay Shirky is a true iconoclast. He examines the economics of publishing newspapers. He then explains why this economic model is broken beyond fixing.

I love newspapers and will hate to see them go, but much of this in just the nostalgia of old man. I expect that journalism will survive the reduction of the newspaper industry.

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