Clay Shirky has an interesting essay about exactly this topic (http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/ http://www.shirky.c

Clay Shirky has an interesting essay about exactly this topic (http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/ http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking.... "Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism."