A really nice summation of the problems the press is facing by Clay Shirky. Just like the printing press in its day up-ended the existing power structures and economics of information, the internet today is rendering the business model of print publishing obsolete.
In his words:
"It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem."
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