The following article is absolutely excellent! (From Phogg's link to Clay Shirky)
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03...e-unthinkable/
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Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke.
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Print media does much of society’s heavy journalistic lifting... attending the City Council meeting, just in case. This coverage creates benefits even for people who aren’t newspaper readers... [we will miss the newspapers but]... irrelevant to the problem at hand; “You’re gonna miss us when we’re gone!” has never been much of a business model.
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For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases. Many of these models will rely on amateurs as researchers and writers. Many of these models will rely on sponsorship or grants or endowments instead of revenues. Many of these models will rely on excitable 14 year olds distributing the results. Many of these models will fail. No one experiment is going to replace what we are now losing with the demise of news on paper, but over time, the collection of new experiments that do work might give us the journalism we need.
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