Who Killed the Newspaper?

“媒体中最有用的部分正在消失。这份讨论出于关切，而不是慌乱。”——The Economist 一篇文章讨论了报纸这个媒体的衰落及其影响。

文章大意是：
报刊行业近年来发行量大大衰减，读者，尤其是15岁到24岁读者越来越习惯于从互联网获取信息。
但是，不用担心报纸新闻业曾担起的社会良心，民主喉舌等重要作用后继无人。Google News等信息聚合服务正抓取着世界上各地的信息，信息源再也不会只局限于当地报纸或者被检查过的报纸；另一方面，全球的Blogger们正在成为一股新的力量，最近Dell笔记本着火和劣质服务的影响，可以作为极好的范例。
Arthur Miller1961年曾写到：“我认为，一份好的报纸，就是一个国家在和自己对话。”现在，种种迹象都表明，这种对话正在变得越来越大声。

摘录：
“A GOOD newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself,” mused Arthur Miller in 1961.
...there is every sign that Arthur Miller's national conversation will be louder than ever.

In future, argues Carnegie, some high-quality journalism will also be backed by non-profit organizations. Already, a few respected news organizations sustain themselves that way—including the Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. An elite group of serious newspapers available everywhere online, independent journalism backed by charities, thousands of fired-up bloggers and well-informed citizen journalists: there is every sign that Arthur Miller's national conversation will be louder than ever.