I'm so sick of the "curation" discussion - if companies like NYT go belly-up, there won't be anything for Huffington Post et al. to "curate". It's inherently de

I'm so sick of the "curation" discussion - if companies like NYT go belly-up, there won't be anything for Huffington Post et al. to "curate". It's inherently derivative. The clip of NYT's David Carr discussing this in a debate in the documentary Page One is unavailable, but I encourage people to watch it. Clayton Cubitt originally described professionalism versus amateurism very well, but this will do: “Can an amateur take a picture as good as a professional? Sure,” Ms. Eismann said. “Can they do it on demand? Can they do it again? Can they do it over and over? Can they do it when a scene isn’t that interesting?” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/media/30photogs.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/media/30photogs.h... It bothers me that people equate "news" and "journalism".