Lets Not Forget...

While conversation roars over the 'little too-early-to-tell' demise of print media, the most important thing, being the transfer of news itself, is being overlooked, and in fact, increasing. People are getting all hung up on the death of a medium, and shift in the market for news and features, that no one is acknowledging the rise in news circulation. 

Arianna Huffington is quoted in a story written two days ago from the Wall Street Journal Blog as saying that there is something inherent in our 'collective DNA that makes us want to sip our coffee, turn a page, look up from a story, say, 'Can you believe this?' and pass the paper across the table.' Huffington was delivering a speech to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, when she also proclaimed that traditional journalists suffer from 'attention deficit disorder,' while bloggers languish under 'obsessive compulsive disorder.' What Huffington means is that traditional journalists have, more or less, one shot to get a story, before their next issue comes out. A blogger, with no capital to 'print' their stories, can research a subject time and time again, posting again and again, until they get a story right. For the full story, click here