Newspapers have not yet started to shut down in large numbers, but it is only a matter of time. Over the next few decades half the rich world’s general papers may fold. Jobs are already disappearing.
We’ve been expecting this, haven’t we? I think we’re already seeing the last throes of many smaller daily papers. And it makes me sorry, because I’ve always liked newspapers. Since junior high school, when I started reading the paper during the Watergate scandal and the fall of Nixon.
In my mind, a good newspaper — any good news source — is like a large rock in a river, in the flow of events both important and trivial. So my question is this: As journalism dies and gives way to cyber-information, how do we trust the river itself, without its rocks?
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