The Death of Newspapers?

The Death of Newspapers?

Why should we worry about the death of newspapers? Reading any newspaper is pretty much a two-dimensional, impersonal, top-down, one-way, and often stupefying experience. News reports are infuriatingly self-referential and incomplete. If they stir us up they don’t...

I am thinking about the future of news. Recently…

…MIT Prof. William Uricchio observed that old media make us feel like “a passenger in the back seat of the car, howling at the driver.” …Phil Balboni debated a skeptical MIT student about news “objectivity” at Balboni’s new online GlobalPost venture. …Harvard’s...