It is often useful to look at the world through someone else's glasses. These are journalists talking about the changes their profession faces. Conclusions are few and far between, but its the perspective thats interesting.

They seem to have a quaint, old fashioned, comic booky view of their profession as the "fourth" branch of the federal government... Brave journalists telling the people what the powers that be don't want them to know... They do seem to realise that their real job is to create and crucify exagerated caricatures of people for the entertainment of the masses. They do seem to lament this, but they don't understand... In fact, as they lament it, they color their prose with the sort of meandering emotional contextualization that is the hallmark of newspaper non-non-fiction.

Anyway, I found it a good sounding board for ideas about the development of the Internet. Putting yourself in someone elses shoes is a great way to see your own ideas in a different light.

American Journalism Review