Clay Shirky writes an interesting piece about the forthcoming death of newspapers and the experience of being so close to the beginning of a revolution not unlike the one that followed the invention of the printing press as the "old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place." According to him, our need is for journalism, not for newspapers, and we're going to need to be creative to find a way to fix what we already know is broken with the old system of journalism so closely linked to newsprint. I'll paste a few choice quotes below, with a link to the entire thing.
