Comprehensive overview of reactions to Neil Henry's opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle, about the impact of new media on journalism. Like much of Jay Rosen's work in this field, this analysis is well-researched, cites multiple and diverse sources and provides helpful context.

This is an impressive collection of responses to Neil Henry's suggestion that Google fund journalism. But I'm not sure Rosen adds much to those responses here. He's awfully quick to dismiss an entire generation of experts as "curmudgeons" over one less-than-perfect opinion piece. He seems more interested in the drama of all the Internet reaction than in nailing down exactly how Henry got it wrong. (Henry suggests that Google owes a special debt to good reporters, when he should have made a more general argument that we all do. Also, Henry completely lets off the hook newspapers that went/are going online slowly and clumsily.)