So this is an article about how newspapers need to learn how to deal with the web as a source of news. A few years back I read Walter Isaacon's biography of Be

So this is an article about how newspapers need to learn how to deal with the web as a source of news. A few years back I read Walter Isaacon's biography of Benjamin Franklin and guess what - Franklin and plenty of other Americans back in the day ran tiny newspapers comparable in content to today's blogs. I'm going to end up doing a blog post about it at some point, but it kills me that journalism and freedom of the press today are considered to be the New York Times when the founders were thinking more like the Pennsylvania Gazette.