Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from โsave newspapersโ to โsave societyโ, the imperative changes from โpreserve the current institutionsโ to โdo whatever works.โ And what works today isnโt the same as what used to work.
Clay ShirkyWith the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves โ the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public โ has stopped being a problem.
Clay Shirky