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Apr 06 2009 12:44pm EDT

Duly Quoted: Kinsley on Letting Newspaper Fail

"We're in a transition, destination uncertain. Arianna Huffington may wake up some morning to find The Washington Post gone forever and the nakedness of her ripoff exposed to the world. Or she may be producing all her own news long before then. Who knows? But there is no reason to suppose that when the dust has settled, people will have lost their appetite for serious news when the only fundamental change is that producing and delivering that news has become cheaper."

-Slate founder Michael Kinsley, arguing in the Washington Post that finding a top-down solution to fixing the newspaper industry, as so many big thinkers have been striving to do recently, is not only futile but unnecessary.. □

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