My 9 year old comment from that thread; >I used to think that the problem with newspapers and journalism was a revenue problem. (e.g. CL took their classified

My 9 year old comment from that thread; >I used to think that the problem with newspapers and journalism was a revenue problem. (e.g. CL took their classified ad revenue). Like a lot of people, I thought that eventually someone would figure out a new source of stable revenues and all would be fine. I now see that the problem is much bigger than that. >I think the important point that is easy to miss is that we are in the very early stages of a major social revolution, probably the biggest in human history. Institutions like the Catholic Church or the NYT and the MSM (today) are what communicate and sustain the culture (whether you agreed with them or not). This is what the internet has broken. It takes time for new institutions to form but that is the process that is underway right now and that process will probably take decades. This article is not really about newspapers and is a must-read if you want to understand the current crazy social and political milieu we live in. My comment is still true; we are still in an historical social revolution and knowing this helps me cope. It is hard to see the big picture sometimes and this article helps me understand. NB: Fun fact, I emailed Clay Shirky with my comment at the time and thanked him for writing it. He emailed me back and wrote (paraphrased) "Yep!" and thank me for reading it.