Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

"When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place.... They are demanding to be lied to."

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/