From Print to Pixel: Dan Gillmor knows that newspapers need to stop lecturing their readers and start conversing with them [...]
The competition issue that matters in the near term is the financial one. When companies that consider journalism a distraction take away classified advertising and other revenues that support traditional journalists, you have the real issue. Blogs aren't driving newspapers out of business; eBay and Craigslist and the host of advertising competitors might. [...]
Newspapers and other media companies have no more innate right to exist than any other enterprise, but it would be terrible for our society if what Big Journalism does well failed to survive the current turmoil.
