When we shift our attention from ’save newspapers’ to ’save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.
<p>via <a href='http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/'>Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky</a>.</p>
H/T to Charlie Stross’ blog