Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Clay Shirky,
Weblog,
Mar 16, 2009
Clay Skirky's widely cited column on the death of newspapers isn't saying anything that hasn't been said before - readers of this website have patiently put up with a steady diet of such articles for almost ten years - but the timing of his article is good and his ultra-conservative conclusion ("Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism") guarantees placement in, um, newspapers. The conference I'm at, SXSW, is about the popular, the mass - and so are newspapers, and so is journalism - and that is exactly the opposite to network thinking, exactly the opposite to what we need. Society doesn't need journalism, it needs to be freed from journalism.
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