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Mar 15 2009 8:54pm EDT

Duly Quoted: Learning to Live Without Newspapers

"When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won't break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren't in peril, that core institutions will be spared, that new methods of spreading information will improve previous practice rather than upending it. They are demanding to be lied to."

-From Clay Shirky's excellent, scary essay on the plight of the newspaper industry. Via Gawker. □

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