New York Times columnist Frank Rich has his turn today on the challenges to journalism as the business model supporting it faces necessary reinvention.
He sees a parallel in the way movies treated television at first --- denial, refusal, terrible innovation --- as digital strengthens its presence in the legacy media sphere.
He decries the loss of journalism, clearly making a distinction between opinion and bloviation and research and reporting. Opinion is cheap, reporting is not, and ultimately we will get what we pay for.
