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April 15, 2009 2:11 pm
Every major change in technology influences the way of life and constitutes a threat to previously privileged professions. In the past printing and television changed the word of communication as do the web and google now. Does it make traditional journalism obsolete? Not necessarily, provided that journalists follow Wittgenstein and consign mere babbling to silence (or to blogs). To be read and survive journalism cannot be anymore a text which becomes irrelevant the next day. Newspapers cannot compete with internet ratings and must find different criteria of value. Open sources programming competes with commercial advertising quite successfully, perhaps newspapers could try it too. In any event Maureen Dowd is much to young to become a dinosaur.— Aharon Meytahl, Vestal, New York
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