Jim sees the
adoption of online news resources as both a benefit, and a detriment to
existing ‘traditional’ papers.He lives in an environment where they are
training future journalists, but can’t honestly say where those new
journalists will be employed once they graduate.
He shared an interesting survey around a local action (widening of
Oregon Expressway project in Palo Alto) that found most of the stories
generated around this ‘event’ came from traditional outlets, not
independent websites, blogs, etc. - and Palo Alto is in the center of
the tech industry.
Information wants to be free (be accessible to all), and by nature,
it wants to be expensive (to support costs of this initiave). The
tension between both ideals will not go away. They key is to find a
path that allows for both for long term success.
